So the huge engine on the back of the Apollo 13 service module is fired up to change the ship’s path away from a “free return trajectory.” Shortly after astronauts end an evening TV ...

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

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. [...] ...

"Every time we meet fear with faith, replace despair with hope, or choose love over ego, we are participating in an innermost ...

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 ...

Almost six days after launch on April 17, severely dehydrated but still alive, tragedy turned to triumph as the Apollo 13 command module splashed down safely in the South Pacific Ocean ...

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 ...

NASA’s flight controllers on the ground played a critical role and were instrumental in devising the solution that allowed Apollo 13 to survive ... command and service module (which was the ...