Apollo 13 planned landing site in the Fra Mauro area on the Moon. The Fra Mauro area is a flat,vast highland centred at 17 degrees and 36 minutes west longitude and 3 degrees and 48 minutes south latitude. The pockmarked surface shows numerous small impact craters. The Apollo 13 mission was launched on April 11th 1971 on a Saturn 5 rocket. During the third day of the mission one of the oxygen tanks on the Apollo craft exploded,forcing the crew to make an emergency landing on the Earth | |
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