The strange part of the Apollo 13 story I keep coming back to is this. The spacecraft carried a computer with a 2.048 MHz clock. It also carried a mechanical wristwatch, a chronograph Omega first ...
Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...
Click to open image viewer. This is the Lunar Module Ascent Engine, one of the most important in the manned Apollo missions. It was used to lift up the ascent stage of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) ...
At 13:24:59 Central Standard Time on December 19, 1972, the Apollo 17 command module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, about 350 nautical miles southeast of Samoa, concluding the last mission to the ...
Click to open image viewer. This is the liquid propellant Lunar Module Ascent Engine. It was one of the most important in the manned Project Apollo missions since it was used to lift up the ascent ...