Apollo 13 Easy Space Trivia Quiz Questions
How many manned missions preceded Apollo 13
in the American Apollo space program?
A: Six.
Apollo 13 was the third mission intended to do
what?
A: Land on the Moon.
The craft was launched on what date?
A: April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST.
Where was if launched from?
A: The Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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What happened to the lunar landing?
A: It was aborted two days later.
Why was it aborted?
A: An oxygen tank exploded crippling the Service
Module (SM).
The flight passed the far side of the Moon at
what altitude above the lunar surface?
A: An altitude of 254 kilometers (137 nautical
miles) above the lunar surface.
How far from earth were they at that point?
A: 400,171 km (248,655 mi) from Earth.
It was a spaceflight record marking what event?
A: The farthest humans have ever traveled from
Earth.
Who was the mission commander?
A: James A. Lovell.
Who was the Command Module Pilot?
A: John L. "Jack" Swigert.
Who was the Lunar Module Pilot?
A: Fred W. Haise.
Swigert was a late replacement for what original
CM pilot?
A: Ken Mattingly.
Why did Swigert replace Mattingly?
A: Mattingly was grounded by the flight surgeon
after exposure to German measles.
Ken Mattingly was originally intended as the
what?
A: Command Module Pilot.
What happened to the Backup Lunar Module Pilot,
Charlie Duke seven days before launch?
A: He contracted rubella from one of his
children.
Who did Duke expose?
A: Both the prime and backup crews, who trained
together.
Mattingly was found to be the only one of the
other five who what?
A: Had not had rubella as a child and thus was
not immune.
Three days before launch, at the insistence of
the Flight Surgeon, who was moved to the prime
crew?
A: Swigert.
What anomaly occurred when the second-stage,
center (inboard) engine shut down?
A: It shut down about two minutes early.
What did the four outboard engines and the
third-stage engine do to compensate?
A: Burned longer.
About six and a half minutes after the end of a
live TV broadcast, what did Houston flight
controllers ask Swigert to do?
A: Turn on the hydrogen and oxygen tank stirring
fans in the Service Module.
Two minutes later, what did the astronauts hear?
A: A "loud bang," accompanied by fluctuations in
electrical power and the firing of the attitude
control thrusters.
Lovell reported seeing out the window that the
craft was doing what?
A: Venting "a gas of some sort" into space.
Without the LM, the accident would have been
what?
A: Fatal.
Why was the Apollo 13 mission called "a
successful failure" by Lovell?
A: Because of the successful safe return of the
astronauts, but the failed lunar landing.