Apollo 13's final few minutes didn't go to plan. As the crew returned to Earth the blackout lasted longer than it should, leaving Mission Control uncertain if they'd make it home. Fifty years on, those who lived through it tell their story. Listen to the new series of our podcast, 13 Minutes to the Moon: https://bbc.in/3a3OyLQ | BBC World Service

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Mar. 6, 1969: Apollo 9 was the third human spaceflight in NASA’s Apollo program. Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM). The mission was flown to qualify the LM for lunar orbit operations in preparation for the first Moon landing by demonstrating its descent and ascent propulsion systems, showing