Partial success · Partial success
NASA's Apollo 13 was a crewed mission to the Moon: the landing abandoned after an oxygen tank ruptured, with the crew returning safely using the Lunar Module as a lifeboat.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- Saturn 5
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Crewed, Lander
Chronology
Mission timeline
Launch
Apollo 13 launched
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 00:00:00.65 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
EarthDeparture
Translunar injection maneuver
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 02:35:46 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
Translunar injection cutoff
GET 02:41:47.15 converted from the mission range zero of 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. The range-zero source precision is one second.
Milestone
Odyssey separated from the S-IVB
GET 03:06:38.9 converted from the mission range zero of 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. The range-zero source precision is one second.
Milestone
Odyssey docked with Aquarius
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 03:19:09 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Deployment
Docked spacecraft extracted from the launch stage
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 04:01:01 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
S-IVB separation maneuver
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 04:18:01 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
First midcourse correction using service propulsion
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 30:40:50 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
Cryogenic oxygen tank incident
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 55:54:53 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
Descent-engine correction restored a free-return trajectory
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 61:29:43 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Impact
S-IVB impacted the Moon
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 77:56:40 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
MoonMilestone
Descent-engine burn accelerated the Earth return
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 79:27:39 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
Third midcourse correction using the descent engine
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 105:18:28 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
Fourth midcourse correction using lunar-module thrusters
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 137:39:52 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
Service module released while Odyssey remained docked with Aquarius
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 138:01:48 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
Aquarius released before Earth entry
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 141:30:00 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Milestone
Odyssey crossed entry interface
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 142:40:46 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
EarthLanding
Apollo 13 splashed down
Original Table 3-I, physical PDF page 13, elapsed time 142:54:41 after 1970-04-11T19:13:00Z. Source fractional seconds and time convention are retained in apollo-h-lifecycle.json.
Earth
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Apollo 13 CSM and docked LM: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data · April 11, 1970 to April 11, 1970
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 13, 2026
- LROC Science Operations Team: Coordinates of Lunar Anthropogenic Targets (28 July 2016) — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Space Guidance Analysis Memo 8-71: solar ephemeris and Apollo reference epochs — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Apollo 13 Mission Report Supplement 1: Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems Performance — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Apollo 13 Mission Report — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Failure Analysis: photographed service-module damage — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- AS-508 S-IVB Postflight Lunar Impact Trajectory Analysis — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference (NASA SP-4029) — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Earth Fact Sheet — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims
- Saturn V Flight Manual SA-507, revised October 5 1969 — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Apollo 13 Command and Service Module - NASA NSSDCA Spacecraft Details — NSSDCAArchive · Supports: mission claims
- Apollo 13 Lunar Module - NASA NSSDCA Spacecraft Details — NSSDCAArchive · Supports: mission claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context