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View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 problem

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-apo13-30008

Image Size 300 DPI: 46 * 30 cm

A group of eight astronauts and flight controllers monitor the console activity in the Mission Operations Control Room of the Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission. Seated, left to right, are MOCR Guidance Officer Raymond F. Teague; Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, and Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., Standing, left to right, are Scientist-Astronaut Anthony W. England; Astronaut Joe H. Engle; Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan; Astronaut Ronald E. Evans; and M.P. Frank, a flight controller. When this picture was made, the Apollo 13 moon landing had already been cancelled, and the Apollo 13 crewmen were in transearth trajectory attempting to bring their crippled spacecraft back home. 14 April 1970.

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1970 - ACCIDENT - APOLLO - APOLLO 13 - ASTRONAUT - BLACK AND WHITE - CERNAN EUGENE - CONTROL ROOM - EVANS RONALD - FAILURE - HOUSTON - HUMAN - MAN - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - MITCHELL EDGAR - SHEPARD ALAN - USA -