Called a "successful failure", the crew of Apollo 13 applied what they'd learned at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill as well as flight engineers band in Houston "working the problem" to bring ...

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...

It’s thirty years since one of the most famous films ever made about space travel came out in cinemas. Apollo 13 was nominated for nine Oscars, and brought the true story of how three astronauts ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The flight plans had been filed, the logistics confirmed and the countdown was on to celebrate ...