{"id":199148,"date":"2025-04-12T01:58:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=101769d4f0095342020abdaebfe5f226"},"modified":"2025-04-12T01:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:58:46","slug":"apollo-13-launch-55-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=199148","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 13 Launch: 55 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1584\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?w=1584\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Apollo 13 launches upward, leaving a column of flames and light brown vapor behind it. Trees and vegetation frame the water at the bottom of the photo. Outlines of small animals can be see in the water. At bottom left is written &quot;Apollo 13, launch&quot; in capital letters. At bottom right is a series of letters and numbers labeling the photo.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg 2320w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=232,300 232w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=768,993 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=792,1024 792w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=1188,1536 1188w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=1584,2048 1584w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=309,400 309w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=464,600 464w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=696,900 696w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=928,1200 928w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0101247orig-1.jpg?resize=1547,2000 1547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1584px) 100vw, 1584px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launch aboard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/apollo-13\/\">Apollo 13<\/a> spacecraft from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 11, 1970. The mission seemed to be going smoothly until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-houston-weve-had-a-problem\/\">55 hours and 55 minutes<\/a> in when an oxygen tank ruptured. The new mission plan involved abandoning the Moon landing, looping around the Moon and getting the crew home safely as quickly as possible. The crew needed to go into \u201clifeboat mode,\u201d using the lunar module Aquarius to save the spacecraft and crew. On April 17, the crew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/history\/50-years-ago-apollo-13-crew-returns-safely-to-earth\/\">returned to Earth<\/a>, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near Samoa.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launch aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 11, 1970. The mission seemed to be going smoothly until 55 hours and 55 minutes in when an oxygen tank ruptured. The new mission plan involved abandoning the Moon landing, looping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apollo-13"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199194,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199148\/revisions\/199194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}