Who Was on Apollo 13?

Apollo 13, U.S. spaceflight, launched on April 11, 1970, that suffered an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, threatening the lives of three astronauts—commander Jim Lovell

Jim Lovell
James Arthur Lovell Jr. (/ˈlʌvəl/; born March 25, 1928) is a retired American astronaut, naval aviator, and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders, one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon.
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, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot Jack Swigert.

Who died in Apollo 13?

Glynn S. Lunney, a legendary NASA flight director who went on duty moments after the Apollo 13 spacecraft exploded on the way to the moon and who played a pivotal role bringing the crew safely back to Earth, died Friday after a long illness.

Did Apollo 13 members survive?

The oxygen was not just for the astronauts to breathe, but also fed the fuel cells that powered the spacecraft. The command module was dying, quickly. But the lunar lander, docked to the command module, was intact. ... Eighty-seven hours after the explosion, the Apollo 13 astronauts safely splashed in the Pacific Ocean.

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