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Limits RegistryThe crew of Apollo 13 — Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise — reached a maximum distance of approximately 400,171 km from Earth on April 15, 1970, while looping around the far side of the Moon on their free-return trajectory home after an oxygen tank explosion forced the mission's Moon landing to be aborted — slightly farther than any of the six Apollo missions that actually landed on the Moon, since their damaged spacecraft required a wider swing around the far side.
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The crew of Apollo 13 — Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise — reached a maximum distance of approximately 400,171 km from Earth on April 15, 1970, while looping around the far side of the Moon on their free-return trajectory home after an oxygen tank explosion forced the mission's Moon landing to be aborted — slightly farther than any of the six Apollo missions that actually landed on the Moon, since their damaged spacecraft required a wider swing around the far side.
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