With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...
Fifty-six years ago, after a tense race to save the Apollo 13 crew, the astronauts finally splashed down safely. Here’s what ...
On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 spacecraft, forcing astronauts to abandon their moon landing and fight for survival.
The mission’s goal was to land astronauts on the Moon’s Fra Mauro region and conduct scientific experiments, including ...
What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
Jim Lovell remembers the Apollo 13 mission as one of the most intense rescue stories in space history, when everything ...
Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr. was the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 mission. Lovell flew on four space missions, including being one of the first humans to orbit the moon on ...