This Day in Space — April 17

Apollo 13 was supposed to go to the moon But 56 hours into the mission oxygen tank n°2 blew up then tank n°1 failed too
The crew heard a bang astronaut John Swigert famously said: “Houston, we have a problem”
The mission was aborted the crew moved into the Apollo Lunar Module “Aquarius”
On April 17, 1970 the “lifeboat” spacecraft splashed in the Pacific The crew was safely back on Earth