On April 11th 1970, a crew of three men were en route for the moon on the Apollo 13. Although the achievement of landing on the surface of the moon is an incredible feat of human engineering, this mission had little public interest. Moon landings had become old news for the American people, as we had already visited the moon twice in the past year. Because of this the coverage of the mission received very little interest; that is until everything went horribly wrong. On April 14th, 1970, at 55 hours and 54 minutes into the mission, one of the primary oxygen tanks in the command module exploded; crippling the spacecraft, destroying the high gain antenna, and leaking valuable liquid oxygen into the abyss of space. With all eyes on earth now watching and praying for the stranded crew of Apollo 13; it was up to the crew and mission control at NASA to work together in order for the crew to return to earth alive. Without the courage of the crew, and the ingenuity of ground control, the three men aboard Apollo 13 would never have made it home, which would have mad it the biggest failure in NASA history. The collaboration between the crew and NASA to overcome problems, stay positive, and to never give up shows how one of NASA’s greatest disasters became one of humanities’ greatest successes.