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Apollo 13 .

This article is about the 1970 spaceflight. For the film based upon it, see  Apollo 13  (film) . For other uses, see  Apollo 13 (disambiguation) . Apollo 13 Apollo 13's damaged service module, seen from the command module, as it was being jettisoned shortly before reentry Mission type Crewed lunar landing attempt ( H ) Operator NASA COSPAR ID 1970-029A SATCAT  no. 4371 [1] Mission duration 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes, 41 seconds [2] Spacecraft properties Spacecraft Apollo CSM -109 Apollo LM -7 Manufacturer CSM:  North American Rockwell LM:  Grumman Launch mass 45,931 kilograms (101,261 lb) [3] Landing mass 5,050 kilograms (11,133 lb) [4] Crew Crew size 3 Members James A. Lovell, Jr. John L. Swigert, Jr. Fred W. Haise, Jr. Callsign CM:  Odyssey LM:  Aquarius Start of mission Launch date April 11, 1970, 19:13:00 UTC Rocket Saturn V  SA-508 Launch site Kennedy   LC-39A End of mission Recovered by USS  Iwo Jima Landing date Apr
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Max Planck

Max Planck Planck in 1933 Born Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck 23 April 1858 Kiel ,  Duchy of Holstein Died 4 October 1947 (aged 89) Göttingen ,  Lower Saxony ,  Germany Nationality German Alma mater Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Known for Planck constant Planck postulate Planck's law of black body radiation Fokker–Planck equation Nernst–Planck equation Third law of thermodynamics Spouse(s) Marie Merck ( m.  1887; died 1909) Marga von Hösslin ( m.  1911) Children 5 Awards Nobel Prize in Physics   (1918) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences   (1926) Lorentz Medal   (1927) Copley Medal   (1929) Max Planck Medal   (1929) Goethe Prize   (1945) Scientific career Fields Physics Institutions University of Kiel University of Göttingen Kaiser Wilhelm Society Thesis On the Second Principles of Mechanical Heat Theory   (1879) Doctoral advisor Alexander von Brill Gustav Kirchhoff Hermann von Helmhol