Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!kksys!wd0gol!newave!john
From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Apollo 13
Message-ID: <711@newave.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 22:16:32 GMT
References: <346.27e39282@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
Lines: 20

In article <346.27e39282@mbcl.rutgers.edu> friedman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes:
> > 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

This depends on what you mean by "lunar mission".  Apollo 13 was to be
the third manned lunar landing mission, but the 5th manned lunar mission.
Apollo 8 showed that NASA was willing to "go for it", and the LEM on
Apollo 10 came within 50,000 feet of the moon.

-john-

-- 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
John A. Weeks III               (612) 942-6969             john@newave.mn.org
NeWave Communications                       ...uunet!tcnet!wd0gol!newave!john