Oxygen tank No. 2 on Apollo 13 exploded nine minutes after the crew finished a 49-minute television broadcast, at about 55 hours and 55 minutes into the mission, causing oxygen tank No. 1 to fail as well while the spacecraft was roughly 200,000 miles from Earth.
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- Apollo 13: Mission Details - NASA (nasa.gov)
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- https://www.militarynews.com/norfolk-navy-flagship/news/top_stories/a-successful-failure-the-apollo-13-mission/article_767f6dbd-fdf0-5302-8e13-82826e5cfbf7.html (militarynews.com)
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