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Apollo 13 odyssey transfixed the nation, tested NASA's mettle

This story originally posted Sept. 17, 2016. It is being republished as part of the Chronicle's 125 series. By the time Apollo 13 launched in April 1970, Americans already had walked on the moon twice ...
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Apollo 13's crew timed a fourteen-second engine burn with a wristwatch in April 1970 after the lunar module's main guidance computer had been powered down to conserve power and ...

The strange part of the Apollo 13 story I keep coming back to is this. The spacecraft carried a computer with a 2.048 MHz clock. It also carried a mechanical wristwatch, a chronograph Omega first ...
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Apollo 13 disaster - The terrifying details behind NASA's greatest rescue

Apollo 13 began as another mission to land astronauts on the Moon before an oxygen tank explosion transformed it into a fight ...
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The Apollo Missions

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...
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How Accurate Is Ron Howard’s ‘Apollo 13’?

Apollo 13 faced real issues in liftoff, including engine failure, but the film took some liberties for dramatic effect. NASA's response to the Apollo 13 crisis was methodical, not chaotic like in the ...