Apollo 13 - The failed Moon mission

Apollo 13 was a space mission of the American Apollo program in April 1970. After the explosion of a tankduring the flight to the moon had to be abandoned the planned lunar landing. Technical improvisation was necessary to achieve the three crew members in their damaged spacecraft back to Earth to bring alive. ThisApollo flight was the only one to be stopped prematurely musste.46 hours and 40 minutes after the start of thefans in oxygen tank 2 was routinely activated. There were signs of a problem when the level indicator rosefrom its previous normal value at about 100% and have remained in this position. In order to investigate theproblem further, the ground control the fan was about an hour later and turn on again after a further threehours, without the display changed.
When Jack Swigert at 55:54 hours flight time at the direction of the ground control the fan in the oxygen tankagain set in motion, there was a short circuit. In the pure oxygen atmosphere of the tank was a fire that spread rapidly. This increased the pressure tank until the tank finally explodierte.Im contrast to the NASA moonlandings were for the media and the population had declined in importance, Apollo 13 would become thethird landed in a period of nearly nine months have been. The U.S. television network carried on live television from the space ship is not, they were only seen in the control center in Houston. Only becameknown as the accident, off the media from all over the world.
As we were able to bring the three astronauts alive in spite of adverse circumstances back to Earth, NASAdescribed the Apollo 13 mission later as a "successful failure".