It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, when Ed Smylie realized they had to do something about the carbon dioxide.

Instead, Apollo 13 became a fight for survival. An onboard explosion crippled the spacecraft, forcing NASA and its astronauts to improvise a way home. This is the story of how disaster was ...

comes the incredible story of Apollo 13, as told by the astronauts in space and the teams on the ground that battled to prevent disaster.

I recently saw Apollo 13 again — this time with the score played live by the Houston Symphony. What a crazy coincidence that thirteen has long been considered an unlucky number and that Apollo ...

On April 11, 1970, NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launched aboard Apollo 13 from Kennedy Space ... The Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, remains one of the most ...

The Apollo 13 mission was meant to be the third lunar landing but the operation was aborted due to serious technical issues, and could have ended in disaster. The objective was to visit the Fra ...