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Apollo 13 : 1970 (including Saturn V, CM-109, SM-109, LM7) : NASA mission AS-508 : an engineering insight into how NASA saved the crew of the crippled Moon mission

Baker, David, 1944-2013

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On the 13th of April 1970, Apollo 13 suffered an explosion. The planned lunar landing was instantly called off and the new challenge was to get the spacecraft back to Earth. When the carbon dioxide in the three astronauts' exhaled breath threatened to asphyxiate them, the crew improvised a filter device to make the air breathable. Only hours before hurtling back into the atmosphere did they power up Apollo again - not knowing if it had been fatally damaged in the explosion. Here is the in-depth, inside story of how a potential disaster became NASA's finest hour.