It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, ...

Tuesday, April 14: 12:43 A.M Apollo 13 needs to return to its previous free-return trajectory. However, NASA engineers fear the explosion may have damaged the engine on the service module.

An explosion hundreds of thousands of miles from ... 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.

chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970. ­After an onboard explosion left their Moon-bound craft leaking oxygen ...

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft launched with astronauts Jack Swigert, 38, Jim Lovell, 42, and Fred Haise, 36. Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, however ...

One of the most impressive subplots of the Tom Hanks movie “Apollo 13,”  a film now 30 years old if you can believe that, was the way NASA engineers literally figured out how to fit a square peg into ...

After an explosion of an oxygen tank partially crippled ... At the successful conclusion of Apollo 13, however, relief replaced celebration; the white vest stayed on.) “I started wearing a ...

A Brookhaven High School graduate credited with saving the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts died peacefully in Tennessee ...