NASA Photo ID: S70-34904 File Name: 10075496.jpg
Film Type: 35mm BW Date Taken: 04/14/70
Title: View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure
Description:
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., prime crew commander of the Apollo 14
mission, monitors communications between the Apollo 13 spacecraft and
Mission Control Center (MCC). He is seated at a console in the Mission
Operations Control Room of the MCC. The main concern of the moment was
action taken by the Apollo 13 crewment to make corrections inside the
spacecraft following discovery of an oxygen cell failure several hours
earlier.
Subject terms:
APOLLO 13
APOLLO PROJECT
ASTRONAUTS
CONSOLES
EMERGENCIES
FLIGHT CONTROL
GROUND BASED CONTROL
INTEGRATED MISSION CONTROL CENTER
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER
PERSONNEL
TEXAS
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