Apollo 13 Audio

But in the end, NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic moments in 1970.

An interesting quote from James A. Lovell (one the crew of Apollo 13):

"Since Apollo 13 many people have asked me, 'Did you have suicide pills on board?' We didn't, and I never heard of such a thing in the eleven years I spent as an astronaut and NASA executive. I did, of course, occasionally think of the possibility that the spacecraft explosion might maroon us in an enormous orbit about the Earth - a sort of perpetual monument to the space program. But Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, and I never talked about that fate during our perilous flight. I guess we were too busy struggling for survival." 

See a video of the damaged Service Module.

Also see:

• Apollo 11 - Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed
• Apollo 11 - First words on the Moon
• Apollo 11 - Video of Armstrong's First Step on the Moon
• Apollo 17 - Strolling on the Moon One Day
• Apollo 17 - Final Reflections on the Moon
• Apollo Video Montage