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 ...

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. [...] ...

Rocket launches and Friday the 13th The last launch ... While it did not launch on a Friday, the ill-fated Apollo 13 had to forego a moon landing in April 1970 when an onboard oxygen tank exploded.

Depending on weather and cloud cover, Florida rocket launches can typically be seen ... south of New Smyrna Beach and one mile north of the Apollo Beach entrance to Canaveral National Seashore ...