The Apollo 13 mission was the fifth lunar mission and was supposed to be the third moon landing. Since the spacecraft did not actually land on the Moon, it is often called a “lunar wobble” (Angel 40). After a rupture in the Service Module's oxygen tank made landing on the moon impossible, suddenly the primary goal of the mission became bringing the crew home safely. The original Apollo 13 mission was aborted but is still considered a "successful failure" due to the experience gained in saving the crew. Apollo 13 was launched into space from Kennedy Space Center on Launch Complex 39A at 12:13 pm on April 11, 1970 (“Apollo 13”). The mission was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro area of ​​the moon, but Apollo 13 was forced to circle the moon without landing due to an explosion. The mission object ended up being reassigned to Apollo 14 which launched in 1971 (Dunbar 1). The spacecraft was made up of two parts joined by a tunnel. The command module was called Odyssey and the lunar module was called Aquarius. The crew remained on the Odyssey during the journey to the moon (Howell 1). There were three astronauts on the Apollo 13 mission. John Swigert was the command module pilot and was originally part of the Apollo 13 backup crew. Swigert only had to take over from Thomas Mattingly as command module pilot seventy-two hours before the mission because Mattingly had been diagnosed with German measles (“John Swigert” 1). Another Apollo 13 astronaut was Fred Haise. Haise was the lunar module pilot for the Apollo 13 mission and had spent a total of 142 hours and fifty-four minutes in space (“Fred Haise” 1). The third astronaut was James Lovell, often known as Jim Lovell. Lovell was the spacecraft commander for the Apollo 13 mission and was the first person...... middle of document ......ollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo13.cfm>."Biography of 'astronaut: Fred Haise.' Astronaut Biography: Fred Haise. NASA, January 1996. Web. February 28, 2014. "Astronaut Biography: James A. Lovell." Astronaut Biography: James A. Lovell. NASA, December 1994. Web. February 28, 2014. "Astronaut Biography: John L. Swigert." Astronaut Biography: John L. Swigert. NASA, January 1983. Web. 28 February 2014. .Dunbar, Brian. "Apollo 13." NASA. NASA, July 8, 2009. Web. February 18, 2014. .Howell, Elizabeth. “Apollo 13: Facts about NASA's near-disaster.” Space.com. Np, 23 August 2012. Web. 27 March 2014. .The man on the moon. CBS News, 2008. DVD.