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 astronauts - James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise - lifted off on April 11 ...

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. [...] ...

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 ...

During the infamous Apollo 13 mission, he and a team of engineers in NASA’s Mission Control found the solution to the lunar module’s scrubbing system, which was starting to lose capacity to provide ...

The Apollo 13 mission, part of NASA’s ongoing human ... The crew had been required to power down a command module while in space and then later reactivate it. Neither had ever been done before.