This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit.

I might get two weeks in with [Jim] Lovell though." When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration prepared to select seven astronauts for the Mercury program in the late 1950s ...

From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders were able to describe the surface of the moon in detail. "The back side [of the moon] looks like a ...