On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

T he genre of movies based on the real missions of NASA is actually a fairly succinct conversation when almost no other ...

Speaking later from his office in London, Middleton says that one of the most revealing pieces of footage he found shows Marilyn Lovell at a press conference ahead of the Apollo 13 flight.

April 11th has been a day of remarkable events throughout history, ranging from groundbreaking scientific achievements to ...

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

for several unbearably tense days—April 13 to April 17, 1970—the whole world watched as NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz led a team that worked around the clock to rescue Apollo 13 astronauts ...

The Apollo 13 mission is a story of tragedy averted. It only makes sense they would make a film about that event. Would it be a worthy dramatization, though? Well, we’re still talking about ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.