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 ...

T he genre of movies based on the real missions of NASA is actually a fairly succinct conversation when almost no other ...

April 11th has been a day of remarkable events throughout history, ranging from groundbreaking scientific achievements to ...

The Apollo 13 mission is a story of tragedy averted. It only makes sense they would make a film about that event. Would it be a worthy dramatization, though? Well, we’re still talking about ...

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. [...] ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on December 4, 1965. According to NASA, the flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes ...

Video journalist: Ellen Tsang Listen to the full epic story of Apollo 13 on the 13 Minutes to the Moon podcast from BBC World Service. The all-female crew are back on Earth after reaching space on ...

Gene Kranz (in vest, as Apollo 13 safely splashed down) had faith that "as a group, we were smart enough ... to get out of any problem. Associated Press Forty years ago, for several unbearably ...

Kevin Bacon as a NASA astronaut in the 1995 film Apollo 13. (MCA/Everett Collection) ...

Films about space, aircraft, and rockets have long fascinated audiences in both Hollywood and Bollywood. While Hollywood has ...