443 a
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The Apollo 13 crew including Jack Swigert getting suited for the departure to the Moon

Apollo 13, April 11, 1970

Three vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC captions on the versos

443 b
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The departure for the Moon

Apollo 13, April 11, 1970

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC captions on the versos

443 c
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Launch Control Center preparing for launch at the Kennedy Space Center

Apollo 13, March 1970

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption on the verso

443 d
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Mission Control watching the liftoff

Apollo 13, April 11, 1970

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption on the verso

443 e
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Liftoff to the Moon

Apollo 13, April 11, 1970, 000:00:01 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-70-34852” (NASA MSC) in blue in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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443 a
Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert (in place of Ken Mattingly), Commander James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise prepare for lift off at Pad 39A.

“The drama of Apollo 13 began even before the flight was under way. By early April 1970, mission Commander James Lovell and his crew, Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise, had trained for almost a year to explore the Moon’s Fra Mauro highlands. When the crew was exposed to German measles, NASA doctors feared that Mattingly, the only one of the crew not immune to the illness, might become sick during the mission. Despite Lovell’s objections, Mattingly was replaced by his backup, Jack Swigert, just days before launch” (Chaikin, Voices, p. 136).

443 b
The Apollo 13 crewmen walk from the Manned spacecraft Operations Building to the transfer van which later took them to their Apollo / Saturn V space vehicle at Launch Complex 39A.

“You have to remember the makeup of the people that are doing this work; all were test pilots. Every time we get in an airplane, to test it, especially in any new regime, going out to any point, any new type of thing. There’s a case it might not work. There’s a case that the wing might fall off,” noted James Lovell (Chaikin, Voices, p. 136).

443 c
[NASA caption] From these consoles, NASA and contractor employees monitor every phase of the countdown and make sure that all rockets and components are ready for flight.

443 d
[NASA caption] Sigurd Sjoberg, Director of Flight Operations at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), views the Apollo 13 liftoff from a console in the MSC Mission Control Center (MCC), Building 30, Houston.

443 e
The Apollo 13 (Spacecraft 109/Lunar Module 7/ Saturn 508) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 2:13 p.m. (EST), April 11, 1970.