Robert Edwin “Ed” Smylie, a Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission’s success, died on ...

Robert “Ed” Smylie stands next to the command center used during the Apollo missions. Smylie, an MSU alumnus who played a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

An Apollo 13 flight plan signed by astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. "Jack" Swigert and Fred W. Haise waits to be auctioned off at Sotheby's Space Exploration sale on July 20, 2017, in New York ...

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

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. [...] ...

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 ...