(History) After its successful launch 45 years ago, the spacecraft Apollo 13 and its crew of three—commander Jim Lovell, command module pilot Jack Swigert and lunar module pilot Fred Haise—were on their way to the Fra Mauro highlands of the Moon.
There, Lovell and Haise planned to roam the Imbrium Basin and conduct geological experiments, becoming the fifth and sixth men to walk on the lunar surface. But—as we all know—things didn't turn out that way. On April 13, an explosion ripped apart one of the spacecraft's oxygen tanks, crippling its power supply and turning what had been a routine mission into a heart-stopping race for survival.
