T he genre of movies based on the real missions of NASA is actually a fairly succinct conversation when almost no other titles achieved the same acclaim as Apollo 13. The three-de ...

It was meant to be another moon landing. Instead, Apollo 13 became a fight for survival. An onboard explosion crippled the ...

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

Still, Apollo 13 — carrying astronauts Jim Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise — makes it to Earth orbit on schedule. The Apollo 13 command module, Odyssey, breaks away from the rest of the ...

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 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 ...

April 11th has been a day of remarkable events throughout history, ranging from groundbreaking scientific achievements to ...

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Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on December 4, 1965. According to NASA, the flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes ...