SPACE NEWS
APOLLO 13 TAKES A DIVE INTO THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the
American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The
craft was launched on April 11, 1970. Most of the experiment was going well
when a fan inside the engine blew up. It caused the three astronauts to lose
oxygen because the space craft was built to hold two people for one and a half
days, instead it had to hold three astronauts for four days. After a four
minute re-entry, Apollo 13 splashed down in the South Pacific on April 17, 1970.
