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Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion

An oxygen tank explodes aboard Apollo 13, crippling the spacecraft and endangering the lives of the astronauts. Mission Control scrambles to assess the situation and devise a plan to bring the crew ho

Year 1970
Date 4/13
Location Houston, Texas, United States (Nasa Mission Control Center)
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Key Figures

Gene Kranz Jim Lovell Flight Controller Jack Swigert Fred Haise
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 206 linked moments

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1970 · contemporaneous
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1970 · same figure
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1970 · same figure
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Apollo 13 Launch
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1970 · same figure
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
1970 · contemporaneous
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
1970 · same figure
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Apollo 5 (AS-204)
1968 · same figure
A
Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
A
Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
A
Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
V
Vostok 1 Mission with Yuri Gagarin
1961 · same figure
Apollo 13 Launch
Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
A
Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
1970 · contemporaneous
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
1970 · same figure
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1970 · same figure
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Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
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1970 · contemporaneous
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Apollo 13 In-Flight Accident
1970 · same figure
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1977 · same figure
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1977 · same figure
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1998 · same figure
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Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
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Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
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Apollo 11 Moon Landing
1969 · same figure
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STS-31 Hubble Space Telescope Launch
1990 · same figure
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Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
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1961 · same figure
Salyut 1 Launch (First Space Station)
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1971 · same figure
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Apollo 13 Accident
1970 · contemporaneous
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Apollo 13 Accident
1970 · same figure
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2003 · same figure