This Day In History, 1970: Apollo 13 Returns Safely

I've been in a bit of a 60s-retro-astro-space-race place recently, at least in my head. First I watched Hidden Figures, the great movie about black female mathematicians at NASA during the Gemini program. That got me thinking about ABC's fun miniseries about the other women of the times, the Astronaut Wives Club, and Eureka! The whole show is online at abc.com so I watched that too. Finally, to round things out with some Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Gary Sinese, I watched Apollo 13. I probably won't be seen today in a psychedelic miniskirt and bouffant hair, but no promises.

Anyway it was 47 years ago today that Apollo 13 returned safely to earth.

Mission Control celebrating Apollo 13 splashdown today in 1970 https://t.co/fEeFC4f0uu pic.twitter.com/oJTLFIFiSL

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