It was meant to be another moon landing. Instead, Apollo 13 became a fight for survival. An onboard explosion crippled the ...

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 ...

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