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It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when Ed Smylie realized ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. [...] ...
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 ...
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.
A Brookhaven High School graduate credited with saving the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts died peacefully in Tennessee ...
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 ...
Image enhancement techniques have shed new light on Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 mission. Imaging specialist Andy Saunders created sharp stills from low-quality 16mm film and by reprocessing original ...
Credit: Mississippi State University archives 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 ...
Fact-based drama about the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the moon. Crew leader Jim Lovell is faced with a nightmare when the mission suffers an on-board explosion - leaving the team stranded ...