Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Apollo 13 Service Module

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Original – Apollo 13's damaged Service Module, as photographed from the Command Module after being jettisoned
 
Alt is uncropped.
Reason
Photographed here is the damaged service module for the aborted Apollo 13 Lunar Mission, the only one of the 17 total Apollo Project Missions to have been aborted due to a compromised spacecraft during the mission. The damage sustained to the service module prompted fears of possible damage to the heat shield, however the crew was able to successfully land the spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean without incident.
Articles in which this image appears
1970 in the United States, Apollo 13
FP category for this image
Tough call. Probably either Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles
Creator
NASA

Promoted File:Apollo 13 Service Module - AS13-59-8500.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:56, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]