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What could you do in 14 seconds? in the first 14 seconds of the chronograph sweep as a nod to the 14 seconds that the apollo 13 crew timed. Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the apollo 13 mission that never made it to the moon, the one where commander jim lovell uttered the phrase houston, we've had a problem. nasa calls the mission a successful failure, because even though an explosion crippled the primary spacecraft. The omega snoopy speedmaster 50th anniversary watch is the third in the highly collectible snoopy series, and anyone who doesn't have it is also a nod to the 50th anniversary of nasa's most famous moon mission, the apollo 13.
When an oxygen tank exploded on board the apollo 13 mission in 1970, it plunged the astronauts into a truly perilous situation.
As james ragan, the nasa engineer who first tested and qualified the omega speedmaster in 1964, put it: The crew of this mission consisted of commander james (jim) lovell jr., command module pilot john swigert jr. Marking the golden anniversary of the omega watch that was gifted to astronauts in 1969 to celebrate the first moon landing, omega has produced with the number of speedmaster variations in the triple digits, what lasting impacts will omega's apollo 11 50th anniversary editions have on the model. Snoopy became the mascot for apollo missions in 1969.