What would YOU do if your spaceship exploded 200,000 miles from home?

Apollo 13: Houston, We Have a Problem!

The incredible true story of astronauts who turned disaster into triumph

Apollo 13 astronauts survived a space explosion and made it home thanks to incredible teamwork!

Imagine you're floating in space, 200,000 miles from Earth, when suddenly — BANG! Something explodes on your spacecraft. That's exactly what happened to the Apollo 13 astronauts on April 11, 1970!

Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were on their way to the Moon when an oxygen tank exploded. Their spacecraft started losing power, oxygen, and heat. They were in BIG trouble!

But here's where it gets amazing. Instead of panicking, thousands of brilliant scientists and engineers at NASA worked together like the world's greatest team. They had to figure out how to bring the astronauts home using only the stuff already on the spacecraft.

The astronauts had to squeeze into the tiny lunar module — a spacecraft built for two people, not three! They floated through freezing temperatures, rationed their water (only 6 ounces per day — that's less than a juice box!), and followed every instruction from mission control.

💡 The astronauts had to build an air filter using only cardboard, plastic bags, and tape — like a life-saving arts and crafts project in space!