On this day 50 years ago at 2:13 p.m. EST, Commander James (Jim) Lovell, Command Module Pilot John Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise launched from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton led the cast, each playing the real-life astronauts who manned the mission. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including two acting nominations for ...

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, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This Saturday (April 11) will mark 50 years since NASA's Apollo 13 mission launched on an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...