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Listen to President Kennedy rally the American people to support NASA's Apollo program
Pres. John F. Kennedy rallying the people of the United States to support NASA's...
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Apollo 13
The severely damaged Apollo 13 service module (SM) as photographed from the lunar...
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Apollo 13 launch
Apollo 13 launching from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral),...
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Tsiolkovsky crater
The Tsiolkovsky crater, photographed by the crew of the Apollo 13 mission on April...
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Interior of the Apollo 13 lunar module
Interior of the Apollo 13 lunar module (LM) Aquarius showing the “mail box,”...
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Apollo 13; damaged service module
The damaged service module drifting away from Apollo 13 after being jettisoned prior...
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Apollo 13; Mission Control Center
Christopher C. Kraft (standing, black suit), deputy director of the Manned Spacecraft...
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Apollo 13 astronauts
Apollo 13 astronauts (from left) Fred W. Haise, Jr., John L. Swigert, Jr., and James...
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Apollo program infographic.
The Apollo program: Major elements of the U.S. Apollo program, showing the Saturn...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
Explore the timeline of the Apollo missions that led the United States to land the first humans on the Moon
Timeline and infographic of the Apollo space missions.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Apollo 13; landing
Crew hoisting the Apollo 13 command module Odyssey aboard the USS Iwo...
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Apollo 13; Mission Control Center
Apollo 13 flight directors applauding the successful splashdown of the command module...
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