Apollo 13 45th Anniversary Event
The San Diego Air & Space Museum invites you to a 2015 California-Panama Exposition Centennial event.
During five tension-filled days in the spring of 1970, the Apollo 13 crew of Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert struggled to survive in a crippled spacecraft. They were heading to the moon, planning to make America’s third lunar landing, when a disastrous explosion not only canceled their plans but put their survival in serious doubt. Short on power, heat, water, and breathable air, their odds were not good. They made it safely back to earth because of their own efforts, in partnership with a determined team on the ground who performed ingenious engineering miracles to keep them alive.
The San Diego Air & Space Museum is offering a rare opportunity to meet the astronauts of Apollo 13, plus the key people on the ground who directed the efforts to help save them in space. Joining them will be others from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs to relate how they all triumphed over great adversity.
Confirmed attendees: Jim Lovell and Fred Haise (the surviving Apollo 13 Crew -- Jack Swigert has since passed away), Bill Anders (Apollo 8), Gene Cernan (Apollo 10, Apollo 17), Glynn Lunney (Flight Director), Al Worden (Apollo 15), Walt Cunningham (Apollo 7), Gerry Griffin (Flight Director), Joe Engle (X-15, Space Shuttle), Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9), Gene Kranz (Flight Director), Milt Windler (Flight Director), Charlie Duke (Apollo 16).