The Apollo 13 mission was the fifth lunar mission and was intended to be the third moon landing. Because the spacecraft did not actually land on the Moon, it is often referred to as a “lunar pass” (Angelo 40). After a rupture in the service module's oxygen tank made landing on the moon impossible, the primary goal of the mission suddenly became the safe return of the crew. The initial Apollo 13 mission was aborted but is still considered a "successful failure" due to the experience gained saving the crew. Apollo 13 was launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center on Launch Complex 39A at 12:13 p.m. on April 11, 1970 ("Apollo 13"). The mission was scheduled to land in the Fra Mauro lunar zone, but Apollo 13 was forced to circle the moon without landing after an explosion The mission purpose ended up being reassigned to Apollo 14 launched in 1971 (Dunbar 1). The command module was called Odyssey and the lunar module was called Aquarius The crew remained in Odyssey en route to the Moon (Howell 1). command module pilot and was initially part of the Apollo 13 backup crew. Swigert had to take Thomas Mattingly's place as command module pilot only seventy-two hours before the mission, because Mattingly had received a diagnosis of measles (“John Swigert” 1). Fred Haise was another Apollo 13 astronaut. Haise was the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 13 mission and had spent a total of 142 hours and fifty-four minutes in space ("Fred Haise" 1). The third astronaut was James Lovell, often known as Jim Lovell. Lovell was the spacecraft commander for the Apollo 13 mission and was the first person...... middle of paper ......ollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo13.cfm>."Bio of the astronaut: Fred Haïse." Astronaut biography: Fred Haise. NASA, January 1996. Web. February 28, 2014. “Astronaut Bio: James A. Lovell.” Astronaut Biography: James A. Lovell. NASA, December 1994. Web. February 28, 2014. “Astronaut Bio: John L. Swigert.” Astronaut Biography: John L. Swigert. NASA, January 1983. Web. February 28, 2014. .Dunbar, Brian. “Apollo 13.” NASA. NASA, July 8, 2009. Web. February 18, 2014. Howell, Elizabeth. "Apollo 13: Facts About NASA's Near-Disaster." Espace.com. Np, August 23, 2012. Web. March 27, 2014. .Man on the Moon. CBS News, 2008. DVD.