IMAGE 400_499\445.Lbm,Emblem for Apollo 13, April 1970: Lovell, Swigert, Haise. A near disaster following an in-flight explosion.
IMAGE 1500_99\535.Lbm,The ones that nearly didn't make it, the Apollo 13 crew. From the left, they are: James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly and Fred Haise.
IMAGE 1500_99\536.Lbm,Apollo 13/Saturn V lifts off in the afternoon of April 11, 1970, destination the Fra Mauro region of the Moon.
IMAGE 1500_99\538.Lbm,Tension mounts at Mission Control, Houston, as controllers try to seek ways of getting the astronauts back alive. (Apollo 13)
IMAGE 100_199\166.Lbm,The damaged service module snapped by the Apollo 13 astronauts as they jettisoned it prior to re-entry in the command module.
IMAGE 200_299\217.Lbm,Despite their hazardous predicament, the Apollo 13 astronauts found time to photograph the lunar surface. The picture shows one of the few seas on the far side of the Moon, Mare Moscoviense, the Sea of Moscow.
IMAGE 1500_99\537.Lbm,The jury-rigged 'mail box' that the Apollo 13 astronauts used to purge their spacecraft of carbon dioxide after the air- conditioning system had been knocked out by the explosion.
IMAGE 1500_99\539.Lbm,Now heading for home, the Apollo 13 astronauts snap this picture of a quarter Earth, showing the western USA and Mexico clear of cloud.
IMAGE 1500_99\540.Lbm,The Apollo 13 command module is hauled aboard the recovery ship USS 'Iwo Jima' after splashdown in the Pacific on April 17, 1970.
IMAGE 800_899\835.Lbm,On the recovery ship Iwo Jima are three very relieved Apollo 13 astronauts, their ordeal ended. They are (from the left): Fred Haise, John Swigert and James Lovell.
IMAGE 100_199\128.Lbm,Three very happy fellas! The Apollo 13 astronauts shortly after splashdown on April 17, 1970, having survived a nerve-racking ordeal. They are (from the left): Fred Haise, James Lovell and John Swigert.
IMAGE 0_99\15.Lbm,On the near-disastrous Apollo 13 mission, John Swigert and another astronaut hold the makeshift life-support equipment the astronauts used to keep the air fresh on their crippled craft.
IMAGE 1500_99\541.Lbm,Relief at Mission Control, Houston, after the successful return and pick-up of the Apollo 13 astronauts.
IMAGE 1500_99\542.Lbm,When the Apollo 13 astronauts are dropped off in Hawaii, President Nixon is there to welcome them back safely to Earth.
