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

The Apollo 13 mission was meant to push humanity closer to the stars, but instead, it became one of the most incredible ...

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 ...

After learning that their makeshift fix worked as intended, they needed to come up with how to tell the Apollo 13 crew how to build the so-called "mail box" in space. "We got hold of T.K.," said ...

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. [...] ...

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

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 ...