The mission of Apollo 13 was made into an outstanding motion picture in 1995 under the direction of Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Ed Harris. Damaged Service Module - This view was photographed from the Command Module following service module jettisoning. An entire panel on the SM was blown away by the explosion of oxygen tank number two. To dowland a full screen version of any of the images that appear on this page, simply click the image. Each image is in JPEG format of approximately 70k.
Arrows point to the spacecraft, to the oxygen cloud, and to the expended Saturn V third stage.
Apollo 13 was tracked a using a 16 inch telescope with an television camera mounted in place of the eyepiece. Coming Home - This photograph of the Earth was taken from the Apollo 13 spacecraft during its transearth journey home. The most visible land mass includes southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The peninsula of Baja California is clearly seen. Most of the land area is under heavy cloud cover.