Apollo 13 Comes Home
From 1970 · a Good News classic
When an oxygen tank exploded 200,000 miles from Earth, Apollo 13's Moon landing became a rescue. For four days, engineers in Houston improvised power-up sequences and a carbon-dioxide scrubber out of duct tape and flight-manual covers while the world held its breath. The splashdown on April 17, 1970 — all three astronauts alive — remains NASA's finest hour.
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