Unreal Facts About The Apollo 13 Mission You Didn’t Know About

5. Initial Launch

The Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970, from the Kennedy Space Centre, was the seventh mission with a full crew in the Apollo space program. The duration of the mission was 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes, and 41 seconds. The date of docking was April 11, 1970, 22:32:08UTC and the undocking date was April 17, 1970, 16:43:00 UTC.

Ironically, the first few days went off very well for the astronauts and even the crew at mission control were very happy that the mission was going so smoothly.