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 ...

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

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

When an oxygen tank exploded mid-flight, the Apollo 13 crew was left stranded thousands of miles from Earth with limited power, oxygen, and no clear way home. This is the incredible true story of ...

Gene Kranz (in vest, as Apollo 13 safely splashed ... the clock to rescue Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise. After an explosion of an oxygen tank partially crippled ...

Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an explosion in an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 aborted that mission. Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...