Tuesday, April 14, 2009

This Day In History




Apr 13 1970
56 hours and 205,000 miles from planet Earth, the crew aboard Apollo 13 hears "a pretty loud bang" when oxygen tank number two spontaneously explodes. Astronaut Jack Swigert informs Mission Control in Houston: "Hey, we've got a problem here." Miraculously, the crew manages to return home in their crippled spacecraft.





Apr 13 1982

David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young is arrested while freebasing cocaine and for illegal possession of a .45 handgun. Sentence: 5 years.

1 comment:

LazyKing said...

Who the hell is David Crosby? lool
I like the first story, miracles always make great stories