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It was forty years ago when the Apollo 13 moon mission became what history calls “NASA’s most successful failure.”
The newspapers hardly mentioned the Apollo 13 flight, as NASA missions had become routine as far as the media was concerned. The headlines in April 1970 were more about the Vietnam war and the breakup of The Beatles.
The three man Apollo 13 crew had to abandon their moon mission on April 13th when an explosion ruptured the Service Module, when one of their three liquid oxygen tanks exploded. The moon mission immediately turned into a rescue mission. [...]