On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13 exploded in space

The United States during the Cold War affirmed its power to the socialist faction, after two successful trips to the Moon and explorers (Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 spacecraft) continued. held a third exploration trip when launching the Apollo 13 ship to the Moon. But this flight had a dangerous incident for American astronauts.

The Apollo 13 ship launched by Saturn launched into space at 13:00 on April 11, 1970. The ship's commander was Jim Lovell, who had made three flights into space. But after three days of smooth operation, on April 13, at 21:00, the ship had a problem.

The Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched into the Moon.

An oxygen tank on the ship exploded while it was in orbit to the Moon. The explosion crippled the Service Modules (SM), making the Command Module (CM) dependent on it also affected. Despite great difficulties due to limited capacity, cabin heat loss, lack of drinking water.

Every second that passes is death coming closer to the astronauts. If the ship cannot return to Earth, it will be lost forever in space. In order to bring the ship back, the quickest and most common solution is to burn the engine and turn the train back. But commander Jim Lovell rethought, he said it is unlikely that this will be a safe and optimal solution. Oxygen tanks are still not exhausted and time remains. So, he asked his staff to analyze by asking questions for three days, that is, based on their ability and judgment to find ways to bring astronauts back to Earth safely.

The Apollo 13 spacecraft module returned to Earth safely with the crew.

They thoroughly studied the ship's design. Apollo spacecraft is designed with many different parts to perform the task. The spacecraft has parts: an escape system when launched; control system; Support system; The system lands on the Moon and the Moon's adaptive part. They finally decided to use the two parts of the ship as the Moon's control system and landing system as well as its engine as an emergency rescue spacecraft. Thanks to that, Apollo 13 returned to Earth safely at 10:43 am on April 17, 1970.

The crew of the Apollo 13 spacecraft.

The failure of the Apollo 13 spacecraft caused many controversies, and took place for quite a long time, The problem happened when the ship and crew were 200,000 miles away from Earth in the situation facing death, the limit for error is impossible to happen.