Today I want to recall the curious incident that occurred almost 48 years ago about the "successful failure" of flight number 13 of the Apollo program to bring men to the Moon.

It is called "successful failure" because it is the only one of the manned flights of the Apollo mission to have had problems that affected the crew consisting of astronauts James (Jim) Lovell, Alfred (Fredo) Haise and Jhon (Jack) Swiger, entering in the lunar orbit and then descend to the surface. At the time of leaving the lunar injection orbit, to undertake the trip to our satellite, during a routine procedure of agitation of the cryogenic oxygen tanks, a short circuit produced an explosion that would disable the Command Module and the Service Module this mission.

The success, despite the aforementioned problems, was that the crew was able to use temporarily, and not without facing other risks, the Lunar Module to return to the Earth, entering the atmosphere with the damaged capsule of the Command Module, gently dipping and happily in the warm waters of the South Pacific. 

Now, I present to you the key information that will help you to decipher for yourselves if it was chance or superstition:

• Name of the mission: Apollo 13
• Release date: April 13, 1970
• Departure time: 13:13:00 Cabo Kennedy local time

Judge you and please comment. Below I share some images of the mission: