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NASA Apollo Mission Apollo-13 Apollo-13 (29) Pad 39-A (7) Saturn-V AS-508 () High Bay 1 MLP 3 Firing Room 1 Crew: James A. Lovell, Jr. John L. Swigert, Jr. Fred W. Haise, Jr. Backup Crew: Milestones: 06/13/69 - S-IVB ondock at KSC 06/29/69 - S-II Stage ondock at KSC 06/16/69 - S-1C Stage ondock at KSC 07/07/69 - S-IU

Apollo 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 at CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida , but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module (SM) upon w