What happened to the damaged Apollo 13 Service Module?

The damaged service module drifting away from Apollo 13 after being jettisoned prior to reentry of the command module, April 17, 1970. The astronauts then moved out of the lunar module and back into Odyssey, powering up the life-support systems that had been shut down in order to conserve them for reentry.

What was the name of the lunar module that separated from the command module to land on the moon?

Lunar Module Eagle
Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5) is the spacecraft that served as the crewed lunar lander of Apollo 11, which was the first mission to land humans on the Moon.

What happened to the lunar module on Apollo 11?

After docking with the CSM, piloted by Michael Collins, at 21:34:00 UT, the LM was jettisoned into lunar orbit at 00:01:01 UT on 22 July. The fate of the LM is not known, but it is assumed that it crashed into the lunar surface sometime within the following 1 to 4 months.

Where is the Apollo 13 LEM?

The Apollo 13 Command Module “Odyssey” is now at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, Kansas. It was originally on display at the Musee de l’Air, Paris, France.

What is the meaning of Apollo 17 lunar module?

Apollo 17 Lunar Module /ALSEP. Description. The Apollo 17 Lunar Module (LM) “Challenger” was the sixth and last lunar lander in the Apollo program. It carried two astronauts, Commander Eugene A. Cernan and LM pilot Harrison H. Schmitt, the eleventh and twelfth men to walk on the Moon.

What experiments did Apollo 11 do on the Moon?

Fast Facts: Apollo 11 1 Passive Seismic Experiment 2 Lunar Field Geology 3 Laser Ranging Retroreflector 4 Solar Wind Composition 5 Cosmic-Ray Detection (helmets) 6 Lunar Surface Close-Up (camera) 7 Lunar Sample Analysis

What was the difference between the command module and Lunar Module?

The lunar module was very different from the command module, which would have to withstand the heat and stress of re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Walls as thin as a couple of sheets of printer paper were all that shielded the astronauts from the vacuum of space as they descended to the lunar surface.

What is the Apollo lunar surface experiments package (ALP)?

The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) consisted of a set of scientific instruments emplaced at the landing site by the astronauts. The instruments were arrayed around a central station which supplied power to run the instruments and communications so data collected by the experiments could be relayed to Earth.