Maybe it oughta be Monday the 13th

[adorshki]

On this day in history, April 13th 1970, a MONDAY, the crew of Apollo 13 got a nasty surprise:

Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes

On April 13, 1970, disaster strikes 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No. 2 blows up on Apollo 13, the third manned lunar landing mission. Astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise had left Earth two days before for the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon but were forced...

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But hey nobody really believes in superstitions, right?

 

[chazmo]

Oh wow. 50 years ago today, eh?

 

[DThomasC]

Man, NASA, all of those Apollo missions, but Apollo 13 especially, those guys pulled together and accomplished something amazing.

Trivia: the movie Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks was made in 1995- as long ago for us as the actual mission was for them. I think I'll see if I can find it online.

 

[walrus]

I remember being a kid and being glued to the TV from the tension of that whole mission.

walrus

 

[davismanLV]

Yeah, I won't ever do space travel on April 13th if it falls on a Monday. It's not worth the risk. It's just not.....

 

[Guildedagain]

Movie was good, classic Tom Hanks. Recommend it. Still wishing I'd been an astronaut.

 

[Quantum Strummer]

Here's a pic showing Jack Swigert helping put together the makeshift carbon dioxide scrubber that allowed 13's crew to keep breathing good air.

I remember watching the Apollo 13 update reports on the evening news while the mission was happening. I also remember seeing the splashdown, though I don't remember if I was at home or in school when it happened.

-Dave-

 

[ruedi]

Trivia: the movie Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks was made in 1995- as long ago for us as the actual mission was for them. ...

Man I'm getting oooold I remember sitting in the cinema, literally feeling the cold and the tension those astronauts had to endure on their way back.

 

[adorshki]

Man I'm getting oooold I remember sitting in the cinema, literally feeling the cold and the tension those astronauts had to endure on their way back.

Heck I was a month shy of 6 years old when John Glenn went into orbit in 1962. I was on the way to school that morning and didn't really quite grasp why they were making such a big deal of it on the news.
A couple of years later, my grandparents had gifted me a subscription to National Geographic which had articles and pictorials of every manned Gemini mission.
It still seemed like the most natural thing in the world to an 8-year old kid, but the first space walk was televised and that was pretty exciting, but the photos were even better.
The launch pad fire of the first Apollo capsule may have been my first growing up moment though.
It happened on a Friday but didn't get the in-depth coverage until the next day.
They re-ran the whole sequence of events including the sudden knowledge and confusion about a fire in the capsule several times that day.
As usual the "Mission Control" monitoring commentary was calm and matter-of-fact throughout, although you could hear some anxiety beneath the surface when the actual fact of the fire was confirmed.

Apollo 1 - Wikipedia

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