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First 33-engine static fire for Super Heavy V3

"Houston, we've had a problem" Some of the most famous words in NASA's history were spoken on this day in 1970. Two days into the Apollo 13 mission that was to land in the Moon's Fra Mauro region, a routine stirring of the spacecraft's oxygen tanks led to disaster. The crew reported hearing a loud bang and then noted that oxygen tank 2 was empty and tank 1's pressure was falling. With the failing Apollo 13 spacecraft over 210,000 miles (330,000 km) from Earth, the race to save the crew from the life-threatening accident began. In this photo we see the Mission Operations Control Room at what is now Johnson Space Center, during a television transmission that took place just before the accident. Eugene F. Kranz (wearing a white vest with his back to camera), was on duty as one of the four Apollo 13 flight directors. On the large screen we see astronaut Fred W. Haise Jr., Apollo 13's lunar module pilot.

My entire TikTok feed is sick Artemis II edits and Zoomers celebrating that we went to space. We are so fucking back 🔥

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman has just requested that the Solar Array cameras have their lights disabled in ~1 hour, to allow the crew to conduct LONG EXPOSURE, DEEP SKY PHOTOGRAPHY. I can't wait to see those pictures!

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

Aww group hug on the way back home! NASA really picked the right crew back in 2023; they've shown so much professionalism and even more humanity.

Air-conditioned lawnmower, 1961