Apollo 13’s Astronauts Return Home (1970)
While 1969 gave the world Apollo 11’s historical first moon landing, 1970 produced Apollo 13, an ill-fated trip that endangered the lives of its three crewmen. The world watched with baited breath to see whether NASA could successfully bring these astronauts home, and their safe return to Terra Firma on April 17, 1970 proved that America could succeed even when everything went wrong.