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Apollo 13

ExplorationCompletedLaunched 1970-04-11

Mission overview

Apollo 13's planned lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen-tank explosion; the crew returned safely in a celebrated rescue.

Mission data

Identity and engineering data from Wikidata (type-verified match · Q182252) · launch date 1970-04-11 confirmed

Operator

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Full field-level provenance

Operator: Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) — community-curated structured knowledge base · Wikidata · wdt · P137 · catalogued value · retrieved 2026-07-11

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Outcome & discoveries

Despite the loss of the landing, all three astronauts returned alive in a triumph of improvisation.

Mission profile

Crew

United States

Jim Lovell

Knowledge connections

Operated byNASA
Part of programApollo program
Launched bySaturn V
Launched fromKennedy Space Center
Mission targetThe Moon
Mission includesJim Lovell
Associated withApollo 13: A Successful Failure
Associated withFarthest Humans from Earth

Mission	Type	Agency	Launch	Status
Apollo 8The Moon	Crewed lunar orbit	NASA	1968-12-21	Completed
Apollo 11The Moon	Crewed lunar landing	NASA	1969-07-16	Completed
Apollo 17The Moon	Crewed lunar landing	NASA	1972-12-07	Completed

Sources

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NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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