The Apollo 13 mission was meant to be the third lunar landing but the operation was aborted ... when Apollo 13 was about 180,000 nautical miles from Earth. One of the liquid oxygen tanks started ...

The astronauts returned safely to Earth after a forced trans-lunar ... The crew of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission, from left to right: Commander James A. Lovell Jr, Command Module pilot ...

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos ...

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 into space, 200,000 miles from Earth ...

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

In 1970, Apollo 13 was to be man’s third landing on the moon ... surface and collected a sample of moon rock and returned to earth. Luna 17 landed an eight wheel self-propelled vehicle on ...

Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the moon in 1969 a reality. They flocked to the Apollo program for many reasons. Some relished the idea of exploring new worlds. Others were inspired by a ...

File Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress In 1970, the Apollo 13 ... landing mission. The attempt was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded but the astronauts safely returned to Earth.

Gene Kranz (in vest, as Apollo 13 safely splashed down ... NASA’s mission was to bring the trio safely back to Earth. Today, Kranz’s five-button, off-white vest (familiar to moviegoers ...

The Apollo 13 mission, part of NASA’s ongoing human ... It was no longer about landing on the moon. The best they could hope for was to get Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert home alive.

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