Apollo 13 - just another boring moon mission

April 25, 1970

The Apollo 13 crew splashed down in their Odyssey capsule this afternoon after a successful mission to the moon. They brought back with them some lunar rock samples.

A successful Apollo 13....this has implications for the future....
 
I imagine Apollos 18, 19, and 20 fly successfully.

Apollo 20 had already been cancelled. I'm not sure hoe a successfull Apollo 13 would have caused 18 and 19 not to have been cancelled.

The interest effect would have been on Apollo 14, which would have launched sooner than in OTL and would have gone elsewhere than Frau Mauro, which was 13's target.
 
The interest effect would have been on Apollo 14, which would have launched sooner than in OTL and would have gone elsewhere than Frau Mauro, which was 13's target.

Perhaps, after three successful and uneventful flights, NASA gets ambitious and sends Apollo 14 to the Dark Side of the moon, using a second command module to bounce radio and telemetry signals to the mothership and from there back to Earth.
 
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