Apparently Apollo 13 Falcon Punched the Moon

[RPM 26431]

I never knew about this part of Apollo 13's flight.

'At least something worked': Watch Apollo 13's crew hail a rocket crash on the moon

After piloting a crippled spacecraft around the far side of the moon, the crew of NASA's stricken Apollo 13 received a rare bit of good news on April 14, 1970. It turns out, they'd made a moonquake. 

A new video of Apollo 13's flight, NASA has pieced together synchronized video, audio and imagery to chronicle the moment when Mission Control radioed the success of the mission's seismic experiment. That experiment, which crashed an upper stage booster from Apollo 13's Saturn V rocket into the moon, was detected by a seismometer delivered to the lunar surface months earlier by the Apollo 12 crew.

[mulletpelini 5216]

Damn, 50 years.....hadn't heard a thing about it recently, wonder why.

[deft 6901]

[Neonmoon 38130]

On 4/14/2020 at 11:24 PM, mulletpelini said:

Damn, 50 years.....hadn't heard a thing about it recently, wonder why.

We don’t talk about what happens on the dark side of the moon 

[deft 6901]

That’s right. We don’t talk about transformer movies, with or without DSotM in the title.

[Dutch 4498]

51 years ago, at these very moments...

https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/

I freaking love these "real-time" of the Apollo missions.   

Edited April 15, 2021 by Dutch