Apollo 13: A Successful Failure
Full mission: 20-30 minutes · Quick: ~10 minutes · No account required
Full mission: 20-30 minutes · Quick: ~10 minutes · No account required
On April 11, 1970, three astronauts—Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise—launched aboard Apollo 13 with one goal: land on the Moon and return safely to Earth. 56 hours in, an oxygen tank exploded 200,000 miles from Earth. The lunar landing was abandoned. The new mission: survive and return home.
You'll face the same 10 critical decisions the crew and Mission Control did — choices that determined whether the astronauts lived or died. Will you make the calls NASA made?
📅 Prefer to browse first? View the mission timeline →
🎪 2026 Elevate Scout Jamboree · NASA Tent — Apollo Table
Presented by Ed Gruhl, Scout District Commissioner, Glacial Trails District
💻 Built with code you can read. This whole site is open-source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (MIT License) — view it, learn from it, modify it. It can help you complete requirements for the Programming, Digital Technology, and Space Exploration merit badges.
🛰️ Would today's SpaceX and NASA controllers score 10/10? They'd better — all ten decisions are still core spaceflight doctrine, 55 years later.