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Apollo 13 Trivia

Think you've got the 'right stuff'? Test your ability to fit a square peg in a round hole and survive NASA's most successful failure.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

Scheduled to land in the Moon's Fra Mauro region, Apollo 13 was originally intended to be NASA's third what?

Lunar landing

Launching on a Saturn V rocket in April 1970, which Florida facility served as the liftoff site for the mission?

Kennedy Space Center

After an oxygen tank explosion aborted its mission to the moon, in which ocean did the crew of the Apollo 13 eventually splash down?

Pacific Ocean

Which astronaut replaced Ken Mattingly as the Command Module Pilot just three days before launch after Mattingly was exposed to the German measles?

Jack Swigert

What was the specific name of the planned lunar landing site for the Apollo 13 mission?

Fra Mauro