New full-length documentary uses archival footage and mission audio to deliver one of the most detailed and accessible accounts of NASA’s “successful failure” LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, January 5 ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

"Houston, we have a problem." But the problem that drives the action in Apollo 13 was a real life-or-death turn of events for the three astronauts onboard. And the inherent suspense in how their ...

Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13 dramatized the nearly catastrophic but gloriously heroic lunar mission by the same name that took place in 1970. Starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon as ...

CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft launched with astronauts Jack Swigert, 38, Jim Lovell, 42, and Fred Haise, 36. Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, however, it ...

Mission controllers discuss the Apollo 13 mission during some point during the last 24 hours before the successful landing on April 17, 1970. How close was Hollywood to depicting a real-life space ...

NEW YORK — A keepsake from NASA's nearly disastrous Apollo 13 moon mission of 1970 nabbed top spot in an auction Monday of more than 300 artifacts from the early years of the U.S. space program. The ...

Jim Lovell, the naval aviator and mechanical engineer who is most famous for commanding the space mission Apollo 13 safely back to Earth after mechanical issues led to an aborted moon landing in 1970, ...

The astronauts of the Apollo 13 mission reunite. April 13, 2010— -- It took just one sentence to get the world to pay attention to the Apollo 13 mission. "Houston, we have a problem." But in fact ...

The Apollo astronauts took some of the most famous photos of the 20 th century, but to Andy Saunders, they’re not quite good enough. It isn’t the content that bothers him, nor the skill of the ...

When Apollo 13 claimed SAG’s outstanding ensemble in a motion picture award ­­— incidentally, in its first year of existence ...