* We enter April 14, earth time. For us aboard Apollo 13, days and dates have ceased. There is only the track… Read more 50 years ago: Turning toward home
A new mission
* Flight Day 3 dawns, if that’s the word, aboard Apollo 13. Our Commander, Jim Lovell, contacts Houston. “We’re awake and getting… Read more A new mission
50 years ago: a routine day on the way to the moon
* “Nothing much happened on the way to the Moon . . . which was exactly the way the Apollo… Read more 50 years ago: a routine day on the way to the moon
50 years ago: Apollo 13 takes flight
* It’s April 11th. It’s 1970. The fury and flood of activity to replace our Command Module pilot is over. We are a… Read more 50 years ago: Apollo 13 takes flight
Down to the final hours
* At midnight, this day fifty years ago, the final countdown for Apollo 13 begins, without a final decision to… Read more Down to the final hours
50 years ago: No immunity
* * A virus An exposure. Repeated blood tests And the test show no immunity. It sounds like current news,… Read more 50 years ago: No immunity
Toward Summer
Toward summer A goal, a finish line, some horizon not so distance though not too near, as we take a… Read more Toward Summer
Fifty years ago: If
A chain of errors leading to the launch of Apollo 13 * If NASA hadn’t decided in 1965 it wanted… Read more Fifty years ago: If
50 years ago: The day Apollo died
Welcome to the new decade. Welcome to the future: The year nineteen-seventy. The year and new decade are not even two weeks… Read more 50 years ago: The day Apollo died
50 years ago: Splash!
* * It’s splash day, November 24, 1969, and we’re about four hours from Entry Interface where the Earth’s atmosphere… Read more 50 years ago: Splash!
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