Command module pilot Jack Swigert uttered the famous words to Mission Control Center which have often been misquoted.

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

T he genre of movies based on the real missions of NASA is actually a fairly succinct conversation when almost no other titles achieved the same acclaim as Apollo 13. The three-de ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

At 141 hours, 31 minutes into the flight. We've had lunar module jettison. And for Apollo 13 the age of Aquarius ended at 141 hours, 30 minutes, ground elapse time.” Announcer: The combined ...

Still, Apollo 13 — carrying astronauts Jim Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise — makes it to Earth orbit on schedule. The Apollo 13 command module, Odyssey, breaks away from the rest of the ...

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 ...