Manned Spaceflights - 1970

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Flight Launch Landing Name Country   Parameters
Apollo 13 April 11, 1970
(19:13 GMT)
April 17, 1970
(18:07 GMT)
Commander: James Lovell
(4th Flight) (NASA Group 2)
USA M Earth Orbit
Perigee: 181.5 km
Apogee: 185.5 km
Inclination: 32.5°
1.5 orbits
Command Module
Odyssey
(CSM-109)
Command Module Pilot: John Swigert
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 5)
USA M
Lunar Module Pilot: Fred Haise
(1st Orbital Flight) (NASA Group 5)
USA M
Lunar Module
Aquarius
(LM-7)
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
SE of American Samoa
Pacific Ocean
(21° 38' S, 165° 22' W)
Backup Crew: John Young USA M Tank Rupture
April 14, 1970

(03:08 GMT)
Backup Crew: (John Swigert) USA M
Backup Crew: Charles Duke USA M
Launch Vehicle
Saturn V #AS-508
The planned landing at Fra Mauro was aborted when
a oxygen tank in the Service Module blew up aboard
Apollo 13, causing the Command Module to lose power,
light, and water at a distance of 321,869 km from Earth.
Support Crew: Vance Brand USA M Time
5 days
22 hours
54 minutes
Support Crew: Jack Lousma USA M
Support Crew: William Pogue USA M

Soyuz 9
(7K-OK #17)
June 1, 1970
(19:00 GMT)
June 19, 1970
(11:58 GMT)
Commander: Andriyan Nikolayev
(2nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 1)
USSR M Perigee: 208 km
Apogee: 220.6 km
Inclination: 51.7°
286 orbits
Flight Engineer: Vitali Sevastiyanov
(1st Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 1)
USSR M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
75 km W of Karaganda
(50° N, 72° E)
1st Backup Crew: Anatoli Filipchenko USSR M Time
17 days
16 hours
58 minutes
1st Backup Crew: Georgi Grechko USSR M
2nd Backup Crew: Vasili Lazarev USSR M
2nd Backup Crew: Valeri Yazdovsky USSR M

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