The Apollo 13 mission launched April 11, 1970. The crew included Commander Jim Lovell, Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert, and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise. The command module was named Odyssey, and the lunar module was named Aquarius.
The trip to the Moon from Earth took about three days. The Apollo 13 flight was looking like the smoothest flight of the program. Two days into the mission, Joe Kerwin, the capsule communicator (CAPCOM) on duty, indicated the spacecraft was in good shape and even joked about boredom.
EXPLOSION IN OXYGEN TANK
Fifty-five hours and 46 minutes after the mission started, the Apollo 13 crew finished a TV broadcast, and Commander Jim Lovell wished viewers a good evening. A few minutes later, mission control asked the crew to activate a routine stir in the oxygen tanks in the Service Module (SM).
