Space missions that ended in failure

Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system. The crew, supported by backup systems on the Apollo Lunar Module, instead looped around the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory and returned safely to Earth on April 17. The mission was commanded by Jim Lovell, with Jack Swigert as command module (CM) pilot and Fred Haise as Lunar Module (LM) pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for Ken Mattingly, who was grounded after exposure to rubella.

first crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

crewed Soviet space mission to the Salyut 1 Space Station

Soviet moon rover program (1969-1977)

STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger.

space probe

U.S. space probe destroyed due to a launch failure

U.S. space probe lost due to a launch failure

U.S. space probe lost due to a launch failure

STS-83 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission flown by . It was a science research mission that achieved orbit successfully, but the planned duration was a failure due to a technical problem with a fuel cell that resulted in the abort of the 15 day duration. Columbia returned to Earth just shy of four days. The mission was re-flown as STS-94 with the same crew later that year.

spacecraft

Soviet spacecraft for crewed lunar flyby

formal member of the Soviet Zond program

U.S. lunar orbiter destroyed in a launch failure

incident involving the VSS Enterprise

United States failed satellite launch