Even More Things That Saved Apollo 13: The Nail-biting Re-entry Sequence

A water level view of the Apollo 13 recovery operations in the South Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA

50 years ago today, on April 17, 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 came home. Safely. Successfully.

The world breathed a collective sigh of relief as they watched NASA turn a disaster into one of the most dramatic happy-endings ever.

The flight of Apollo 13 was unlike any other Apollo mission, and the final hours of the flight – preparing for and implementing the reentry to Earth – was unlike any other, as well.

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