Apollo 13 failed lunar landing. It has also been termed "NASA's finest hour." President Nixon awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the crew and the Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team for their actions during the mission. The Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment (CCGE) which was part of the ALSEP on Apollo 13 was never flown again. It was a version of the Cold Cathode Ion Gauge (CCIG) which featured on Apollo 12, Apollo 14, and Apollo 15. The CCGE was designed as a standalone version of the CCIG. On other missions, the CCIG was connected as part of the Suprathermal Ion Detector
Harte Hanks that year with the purchase of the "Anderson Independent" and "Anderson Daily Mail" of Anderson, South Carolina, merging them into the "Anderson Independent-Mail". By 1980, the company owned 29 daily and 68 weekly newspapers, but its fastest growing division was consumer direct marketing, which included marketing agencies, market research firms and direct-mail distributors — the future core of today's Harte Hanks. In 1995, Harte Hanks sold to Community Newspaper Company its interest in the Massachusetts-based "Middlesex News", two other dailies, and associated weeklies in the western suburbs of Boston. It had owned the "News" since 1972 and bought the "News-Tribune"