15) Apollo 13 mission

Question 1

Whose mission is it ?

Answer 1

NASA launched in 1970 (So 50 yrs completed)

Question 2

What was Apollo 13 specifically ?

Answer 2

It was NASA’s 7th crewed mission in the Apollo space program
It was also the 3rd one to land on the Moon (after Apollo 11 and 12)

Question 3

Which mission was Neil Armstrong part of ?

Answer 3

Apollo 11

Question 4

Was it successful ?

Answer 4

Huge story — Within 2 days of the mission, explosion in the service tank
They aborted the lunar landing part and announced that it would swing around the moon before coming back to Earth
Crew made a heroic reentry into the lunar module
Finally everyone returned back safe by landing in South Pacific Ocean
So it didn’t land on the moon, but got photographs of its loop around the Moon

Question 5

So totally how many NASA missions were successful in landing humans onto Moon ?

Answer 5

6 — Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17. Totally 12 astronauts . All were men.
Now its time for women empowerment so NASA is sending woman astronaut in its 2024 Artemis mission to Moon