NASA Photo ID: S70-34627           File Name: 10075490.jpg
Film Type: 35mm BW                 Date Taken: 04/11/70
Title: View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 liftoff
Description:
Sigurd A. Sjoberg, Director of Flight Operations at Manned Spacecraft
Center  (MSC), views the Apollo 13 liftoff from a console in the MSC
Mission Control  Center, bldg 30. Apollo 13 lifted off at 1:13 p.m., April
11, 1970 (34627);   Astronaut Thomas F. Mattingly II, who was scheduled as
a prime crewman for  the Apollo 13 mission but was replaced in the final
hours when it was  discovered he had been exposed to measles, watches the
liftoff phase of the  mission. He is seated at a console in the Mission
Control Center's Mission  Operations Control Room. Scientist-Astronaut
Joseph P. Kerwin, a spacecraft  communicator for the mission, looks on at
right (34628).             
Subject terms:
APOLLO 13                               
APOLLO PROJECT                          
ASTRONAUTS                              
CONSOLES                                
FLIGHT CONTROL                          
GROUND BASED CONTROL                    
INTEGRATED MISSION CONTROL CENTER       
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER                    
PERSONNEL                               
TEXAS                                   

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