55 Years Ago Today: The Launch of Apollo 13

<![CDATA[Less than a year after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon, the Apollo program had become so routine that people didn’t really pay attention to Apollo 13 when it launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, at 2:13 p.m. Media coverage was sparse, and so were the crowds in attendance.]]>