Somewhere among the jagged trenches of the South Pacific sits a graphite fuel cask containing 3.9 kg of plutonium from Apollo 13. The fate of the radioactive plutonium-238 has long been …

Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.

Oct 28, 2015 · Known as ' space junk, ' this debris is often found in low orbit around Earth and is tracked by several space agencies, including the European Space Agency, NASA and the …

Feb 6, 2024 · Jim Lovell described the sound that the Apollo 13 crew heard as a "bang-whump-shudder," which led the Apollo 13 commander to assume the worst: A possible collision with …

Depending on the orientation of the S-Band dish during the tank failure, it may have been extended outside of the shielded area, as is was mounted on an outrigger anyway. The areas …

Space debris (also known as space junk, space pollution, [1] space waste, space trash, space garbage, or cosmic debris[2]) are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth …

Apr 14, 2016 · The explosion on board Apollo 13 marked the start of one of the greatest rescue missions in human exploration, but the three crewmembers owed their lives to a decision …

Apr 11, 2020 · Despite the difficulties, they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 17, 1970. Space is a dangerous place. There's harmful radiation to contend with, dangerous debris …

Apr 16, 2010 · But the explosion of the tank had enshrouded the Apollo 13 spacecraft with debris. Commander Jim Lovell and his crew couldn’t discern the stars from the particles that …

Apr 11, 1970 · When Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970, it was intended to be the third Apollo mission to land on the Moon. Unfortunately, an explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled …