The crew instead looped around the moon and returned safely to earth on april 17.
Apollo 13 mission control room.
12 failure is not an option was in fact coined by bill broyles one of the screenwriters of apollo 13 based on a similar statement made not by kranz but another member of the apollo 13.
Once a gleaming state of the art facility apollo mission control at johnson.
We were a bunch of young people that happened to be at the right place at the right time.
Kranz travels all over the world giving a motivational lecture titled failure is not an option including the historic apollo 13 flight control room.
Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the apollo space program and the third meant to land on the moon the craft was launched from kennedy space center on april 11 1970 but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module sm failed two days into the mission.
In fact from this room the nasa team exercised full mission control of apollo 11 from launch at the kennedy space center to splashdown in the pacific ocean.
Houston the storied room that first saw humans land on the moon has fallen into a shocking state of disrepair.