{"id":652326,"date":"2020-04-17T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=652326"},"modified":"2020-04-17T04:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T08:45:00","slug":"space-is-hard-mission-control-after-apollo-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=652326","title":{"rendered":"Space is hard &#8211; mission control after Apollo 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mission_control_celebrates_successful_splashdown_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Mission control celebrates successful splashdown\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apollo 13 has been called \u2018NASA&#8217;s finest hour\u2019. What was meant to have been the third lunar landing in April 1970, 50 years ago, became a struggle to safely return the crew of three when an oxygen tank explosion crippled their Apollo spacecraft. In the end, it was a major success.<\/p>\n<p>The interaction between the Apollo 13 astronauts and mission operations teams on the ground remains one of the finest examples of leadership and teamwork in modern history, and ESA\u2019s mission control, at the\u00a0<a href=\"\/About_Us\/ESOC\" title=\"ESOC mission control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">European Space Operations Centre<\/a>\u00a0(ESOC), is based on the same approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Operations\/Space_is_hard_-_mission_control_after_Apollo_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space is hard &#8211; mission control after Apollo 13<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo 13 has been called \u2018NASA&#8217;s finest hour\u2019. What was meant to have been the third lunar landing in April 1970, 50 years ago, became a struggle to safely return&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652327,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/652327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}