Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11 1970 at 13:13 CST from the Kennedy Space Center Florida but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later crippling the Service Module (SM) upon which the Command Module (CM) depended.
