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30cm
actual image size: 22cm x 32cm
Description
The astronaut is practising the setting up of a lunar surface experiment. Apollo 13, with astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise aboard, was launched on 11th April 1970 on what was intended to be the third manned Moon landing mision. The mision had to be abandoned after an explosion in the Service Module just over halfway to the Moon. The astronauts returned safely to Earth after a forced trans-lunar flight.
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