On July 20, 1969, Jim Lovell sat at home and watched Neil Armstrong become the first man to walk on the moon. Jim Lovell gets the news that Allan Shepard got sick with an inner ear infection and that he was now going to be the captain of the Apollo 13 mission. So, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Ken Maddingly went in to training for the mission to the moon. Then just two days prior to the launch date Ken Maddingly is thought to have measles. His replacement is Jack Swaggord from the back up crew for the mission. On April 10 the crew of Apollo 13 is launched into space and headed for the moon. On April 13 the crew had their first broadcast of them in space and it wasn't even shown on television. Then while Swaggord was doing basic routine check ups there was a massive explosion. It was caused by Swaggord stirring the oxygen tanks, which had a short in the coil causing a spark and an explosion. The crew was losing all their oxygen. Since the explosion accured they won't be able to land on the moon. They have to power down to stop the leak and save enough oxygen to get home on. Ken Maddingly has to simulate a way to save as much power as possible and still get them back alive. The crew finds out that they are slowly being poisoned by CO2 in the air. The crew has to make a ventilation box to clean up the air. Maddingly figures out a way to save enough power to get them home successfully. The process works and everything seems to be in order. They release the service module and Aquarius and prepare for reentry into the atmosphere. Every thing goes to plan and they reentered fine and made it home successfully.
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