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

Robert “Ed” Smylie stands next to the command center used during the Apollo missions. Smylie, an MSU alumnus who played a ...

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

Robert Edwin “Ed” Smylie of Crossville, Tennessee, a Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission’s success, died on Monday, April ...

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. [...] ...

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA astronauts - James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise - lifted off on April 11 ...

We'd forgive you for thinking Footloose is how most people fondly remember Kevin Bacon. The '80s box-office smash in which a youthful Bacon leads a small religious town back onto the dance floor ...

(NASA) – On April 11, 1970, the powerful Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center propelling astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert on what ...