When Apollo 13 looped around the moon in April 1970, more than 40 million people around the world watched the United States recover from a potential catastrophe. An oxygen tank explosion turned a planned landing into an urgent exercise in problem-solving, and the three astronauts on board used the moon’s gravity to sling themselves safely home. It was a moment of extraordinary human drama, and a revealing geopolitical one.
NOAA solar observatory reaches Lagrange point 1
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