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From: friedman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: RE: Apollo 13
Message-ID: <346.27e39282@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 20:00:02 GMT
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In a recent article

Rory McLeod
Dept of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (stress the latter)
Univerisity of Virginia
 
worte:

>     Apollo 13 was to be the second lunar misson.  The Saturn V
>     was launched on 11 April 1970 and the first 55 hours and
>     55 minutes proceeded without problems.  The spacecraft was
>     320,000 km from the earth and still accelerating towards   

Apollo 13 was to be the third mission to the moon.  Let us not forget Apollo 11
and Apollo 12

-Rich
friedman@mbcl.rutgers.edu