Mission Heritage · canon plane
Apollo 13
NASA · Apr 1970 · successful failure
The lunar landing that became the finest rescue in spaceflight.
The record
| Failure | O₂ tank 2 rupture at T+55:54:53 | NASA Apollo 13 Mission Report |
| Return path | free-return via lunar flyby, LM as lifeboat | NASA Apollo 13 Mission Report |
| TLI Δv | ≈ 3,140 m/s class | Apollo Flight Journal |
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Same translunar geometry; the free-return variant is a fidelity-ladder study.
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Canon entries are admitted and amended through a Go/No-Go — the same review primitive as missions and CAPCOM sources.
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