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The day 'a bomb exploded … 200,000 miles from Earth': Apollo 13's successful failed mission


The day ‘a bomb exploded … 200,000 miles from Earth’: Apollo 13’s successful failed mission
Updated Apr 11, 2021;
Lovell told NASA’s Mission Control, “There is one whole side of that spacecraft missing.”
Apollo 13 with three astronauts on board lifted off for the moon from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970.
Two days later it became obvious that Apollo 13 would not be landing on the moon but instead fighting just to return to Earth.
“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” said commander James A. Lovell Jr.
That problem was an exploded oxygen tank.
On April 14, 1970, the Associated Press reported, “
Never once, in the greatest crisis of their lives, in a danger that had materialized only in fiction, did the Apollo 13 astronauts lose their cool. ....

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Out of the Past ... from the archives of The Winchester Star


100 years ago
The Elks of Winchester are preparing a great treat for the children of the city to be given at the Elks home at Braddock and Piccadilly streets on Christmas night. Every child in Winchester is invited to be present and each one will receive a gift of some sort.
Dec. 22, 1920
Professor Henry F. Steal is swinging into shape a Jazz Orchestra for the Auditorium Friday and Saturday nights with piano, saxophone, drums, etc. This will provide another added attraction for the theater going public in addition to the splendid line of pictures scheduled and the Vaudeville.
Dec. 23, 1920
Christmas will be observed by the illuminating of a large community Christmas tree placed directly in front of the Courthouse on Christmas Eve. ....

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