April 13, 1970 –
56 hours and 205,000 miles from planet Earth, the crew aboard Apollo 13 heard “a pretty loud bang” when oxygen tank number two spontaneously exploded. Astronaut Jack Swigert informs Mission Control in Houston: “Hey, we’ve had a problem here.”
Miraculously, the crew manages to return home in their crippled spacecraft.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 