Apollo 13

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

19:13:00

Saturday April 11, 1970

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Launch Notes

During the launch, one of the second stage engines shutdown prematurely. However, the four remaining second stage engines and the third stage were able to compensate by burning longer. The service module anomaly which prevented a moon landing was a fault of the spacecraft, not the launch vehicle.

Apollo 13

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Apollo 13 was to be the third moon landing in the Apollo program but was aborted due to an oxygen tank exploding. The crew returned to Earth safely.

Trans Lunar Injection

1 Payload

46,305 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Saturn V

Active 1967 to 1973

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo

Agency

NASA

Price

$1160.00 million

Rocket

Height: 110.6m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 140,000 kg

Liftoff Thrust

35,100 Kilonewtons

Stages

3

Launch Site

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Saturn V


8th

Mission

1st

Mission of 1970

1970


31st

Orbital launch attempt