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The Planetary Society is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13, which launched on 11 April 1970. Disaster struck on 13 April, prompting the crew's infamous "Houston, we've had a problem" call for help. Learn what happened, and how NASA got the astronauts home safely on 17 April.
Apollo 13 was the 3rd attempt to land humans on the Moon and the 1st to fail. Fifty-six hours into the mission, an explosion forced the crew to abort their Moon landing and take shelter in the Lunar Module. The crew ultimately returned to Earth safely.
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Everything you need to know about space science and exploration, including an Apollo anniversary, a gravity slingshot, and a global celebration of space.
Europe and Japan's BepiColombo spacecraft, which launched in 2018, will fly by Earth on 10 April and use our planet's gravity to swing towards the inner solar system. Learn more about this mission and why we study Mercury.
Europe and Japan’s first Mercury mission will study how the planet formed.
The innermost planet is a contradictory mystery.
Emily Lakdawalla • December 08, 2010
Time to open the eighth door in the advent calendar. Where in the solar system is this nearly flat plain?
Emily Lakdawalla • November 24, 2010
I'm surprised no one's emailed me demanding the last batch of Voyager mission status bulletins! Well, here they are.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 09, 2010
Ready to see something beautiful? Here's a team effort by Björn Jónsson and Ian Regan to create a really mesmerizing view of the motions of Jupiter's clouds.
Emily Lakdawalla • September 24, 2010
Last week I posted a stack of Voyager Mission Status Bulletins, which were once the main resource for space enthusiasts to follow the dramatic events and photos of an in-flight space mission.
Emily Lakdawalla • September 14, 2010
We take for granted now the ability to get detailed mission updates in a timely fashion via the Web. But How did people get their mission status before the Web?
Björn Jónsson • September 01, 2010 • 1
This is a new, big mosaic of Voyager 1 images, this time showing the Great Red Spot at high resolution.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 26, 2010
Amateur image mage Björn Jónsson has recently turned his attention back to Voyager 1's close-up images of Jupiter.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 24, 2010
Following up on the story I first posted on August 22, the Jupiter impact fireball first noticed by Japanese amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa has been independently confirmed by two other Japanese astronomers.
Jason Perry • August 20, 2010
Thanks to its active volcanic activity and sulfur-rich surface, Io is one of the most colorful worlds yet seen in the Solar System, save the Earth of course
Emily Lakdawalla • July 27, 2010
Here are two newly processed portraits of Saturn, showing the planet just after its equinox.
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