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The third landing attempt, aborted after an in-flight explosion. Launched 11 April 1970 at 19:13 UTC with James Lovell, John 'Jack' Swigert and Fred Haise; Swigert had replaced Ken Mattingly days before launch over a rubella exposure. On 14 April at 03:08 UTC, roughly 56 hours into the flight, oxygen tank 2 in the service module ruptured, venting the command module's oxygen and power. The crew shut down the CSM and used the Lunar Module Aquarius as a lifeboat, looping around the Moon on a free-return trajectory and improvising a carbon-dioxide scrubber adapter. Splashdown 17 April 1970. The Apollo 13 Review Board traced the failure to damaged Teflon wire insulation inside the tank, after thermostatic switches never upgraded from 28 V to the 65 V ground supply welded shut during a pre-flight detanking and let heaters overheat the tank interior.

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  1. Story
  2. The third landing attempt, aborted after an in-flight explosion. Launched 11 April 1970 at 19:13 UTC with James Lovell, John 'Jack' Swigert and Fred Haise; Swigert had replaced Ken Mattingly days before launch over a rubella exposure. On 14 April at 03:08 UTC, roughly 56 hours into the flight, oxygen tank 2 in the service module ruptured, venting the command module's oxygen and power. The crew shut down the CSM and used the Lunar Module Aquarius as a lifeboat, looping around the Moon on a free-return trajectory and improvising a carbon-dioxide scrubber adapter. Splashdown 17 April 1970. The Apollo 13 Review Board traced the failure to damaged Teflon wire insulation inside the tank, after thermostatic switches never upgraded from 28 V to the 65 V ground supply welded shut during a pre-flight detanking and let heaters overheat the tank interior.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Apollo 13
  5. Artemis II
  6. Apollo Lunar Module
  7. Connections
  8. Apollo Lunar Module
  9. Artemis II
  10. Apollo 13 launches
  11. Apollo 13 oxygen tank 2 ruptures
  12. Apollo 13 crew returns alive
  13. Artemis II rounds the lunar far side and breaks the Apollo 13 distance record
  14. Apollo 11
  15. Apollo 13
  16. Orion (Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle)
  17. Eagle lands at Tranquility Base
  18. Apollo 13 oxygen tank 2 ruptures
  19. Challenger lands in the Taurus–Littrow valley
  20. Apollo 13
  21. Orion (Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle)
  22. Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
  23. NASA concludes the Orion heat shield investigation
  24. Artemis II launches — first crew beyond low Earth orbit since 1972
  25. Artemis II rounds the lunar far side and breaks the Apollo 13 distance record
  26. Artemis II splashes down off San Diego
  27. Evidence
  28. Attributes the Apollo 13 service module oxygen tank 2 rupture to damaged wire insulation inside the tank, following thermostatic switches that were never upgraded from 28 V to the 65 V ground supply and welded shut during a pre-flight detanking.
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