Apollo 13 Apollo 13 Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module (SM) upon which the command module (CM) had depended. Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to make makeshift repairs to the carbon dioxide removal system, the crew returned safely to Earth on
MV Apollo April, all sailings by the ferry were cancelled due to severe ice conditions in the strait. MV Apollo MV "Apollo" is a vehicle/passenger ferry that currently services the route between St. Barbe, Newfoundland and Labrador and Blanc-Sablon, Quebec, Canada. "Apollo" was originally built for Viking Line of Sweden in 1970. In 1976, she was sold to Olau Line for its service between Sheerness, England and Vlissingen, Netherlands, and was renamed "Olau Kent", before returning to Scandinavia in 1981 as the "Gelting Nord" of Danish operator Nordisk Færgefart. In 1984, she was chartered to Brittany Ferries as the "Benodet", before moving