After the Moon landing, Apollo entered its most dangerous and scientifically ambitious phase. Apollo 12 survived lightning strikes shortly after launch, while Apollo 13 suffered an oxygen-tank ...

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, Illinois, NASA ...

Ron Howard wanted Apollo 13 (1995) to feel less like a Hollywood version of the space program and more like something ...

The strange part of the Apollo 13 story I keep coming back to is this. The spacecraft carried a computer with a 2.048 MHz clock. It also carried a mechanical wristwatch, a chronograph Omega first ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

CHICAGO (AP) — 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, ...