On April 11th, 1970, Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida as the third mission to land on the moon.

However, it never achieved its mission objective.

Despite having failed in its goal, it still managed to return to Earth, and in its own way achieved a type of success it never could have planned for.

Learn more about Apollo 13, the most successful failure in the history of spaceflight on this episode of

everything everywhere daily. Despite only two previous moon landings, by April 1970, the public had become Blasey towards landing on the moon.

Apollo 11 received all the attention as it was the first moon landing.

Apollo 12 broke its television camera so there were no live videos for the public to watch.

By the time Apollo 13 came around, the television networks didn't even bother covering the launch because they felt there wasn't enough interest.

Apollo 13 was to be the most ambitious mission yet.

With two successful moon landings under their belt, NASA was to send Apollo 13 to a site just

north of the Fra Morrow Crater.

It was intended to be one of the 4-H missions, which was to be a two-day stay on the moon,

with two moon walking sessions outside the lunar module, also known as the Lem.

The commander of the mission was Jim Lovell, who had previously flown around the moon

on Apollo 8, and was also a veteran of Gemini 7 and 12.

He was to become the first person to fly into space four times.

Landing on the moon of level was the lunar module pilot Fred Hayes. Hayes was a civilian test

pilot and it was to be his first flight into space.

The command module pilot, the guy who would orbit the moon while the other two were on the surface,

was Jack Swigert, and it was also to be Swigert's first trip into space.

Swigert was first trip into space.

Swigert was actually a late replacement for the original command module pilot, Ken Mattingly,

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