Manned Spaceflights - 1970

Manned Spaceflight Chronology Index

Flight	Launch	Landing	Name	Country		Parameters
Apollo 13	April 11, 1970 (19:13 GMT)	April 17, 1970 (18:07 GMT)	Commander: James Lovell (4^th Flight) (NASA Group 2)	USA	M	Earth Orbit Perigee: 184 km Apogee: 186 km Inclination: 32.5° 1.5 orbits
Command Module Odyssey (CSM-109)			Command Module Pilot: John Swigert (1^st Flight) (NASA Group 5)	USA	M
Command Module Odyssey (CSM-109)			Lunar Module Pilot: Fred Haise (1^st 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° 63' S, 165° 37' 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 (2^nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 1)	USSR	M	Perigee: 208 km Apogee: 221 km Inclination: 51.7° 286 orbits
Soyuz 9 (7K-OK #17)	June 1, 1970 (19:00 GMT)	June 19, 1970 (11:58 GMT)	Flight Engineer: Vitali Sevastiyanov (1^st 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)	1^st Backup Crew: Anatoli Filipchenko	USSR	M	Time 17 days 16 hours 58 minutes
			1^st Backup Crew: Georgi Grechko	USSR	M
			2^nd Backup Crew: Vasili Lazarev	USSR	M
			2^nd Backup Crew: Valeri Yazdovsky	USSR	M

Manned Spaceflight Chronology Index

Updated - July 12, 2008