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Apollo 13

Apollo 13 was a very important space mission that took place a long time ago. It was a time when people wanted to learn about space and explore what was out there.

A spaceship was built to take a team of astronauts to the moon. They were going to be the third group of people to actually walk on the moon. The spaceship was all ready and it was time for the space team to head up to space.

But after the spaceship launched, there was a big problem. Something broke and it caused an explosion. The spaceship was suddenly in a lot of trouble. The astronauts were far away from Earth and they needed to fix the problem to make sure they could all come back home safely.

The astronauts had to do some pretty amazing things to try to fix the broken spaceship. They had to think really hard and use their knowledge to come up with a plan. Many people back on Earth worked hard to help them too. They all wanted to make sure the astronauts were safe and could come back home.

It was a very scary time for everyone involved, but the astronauts and the people on Earth managed to work together to come up with a plan to bring them all back safely. In the end, they all made it back home and everyone was very happy and proud of what they had accomplished. It was a very exciting mission and everyone learned a lot from it.