One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
28 October 2022
One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
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The ill-fated Apollo 13 Saturn V rocket lifting off to the Moon, NASA [Apollo 13], 11 April 1970

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vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper 10 h × 8 w in (25 × 20 cm)
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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.
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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. The trio left Earth atop a Saturn V booster on April 11, 1970. (Chaikin, Voices, pg. 136)

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. The crew of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) third lunar landing mission are astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., commander; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot. [NASA caption]

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