It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when Ed Smylie realized ...

A Brookhaven High School graduate credited with saving the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts died peacefully in Tennessee ...

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 ...

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. [...] ...

Apollo 13 started long before launch, with final processing, testing and verification of the command and service module (CSM) and the lunar module (LM) in the high bay of what was then called the ...

On this day 1970 - Apollo 13 Explosion After a routine stir of an oxygen tank, damaged wiring insulation caused an explosion which depleted both of the Service Module’s oxygen tanks into space. The ...

Before Apollo 13, Lovell had piloted the Gemini 7 mission ... the flight caught the world’s attention when an oxygen tank exploded on the service module, emptying another tank and knocking ...

After the U.S. Army assigned Thomas Tate to guided missile training, his life forever changed. He ended up spending decades ...

James Lovell may be best known as the commander of Apollo 13. During that April 1970 mission, the service module’s cryogenic oxygen system failed, putting the astronauts’ lives in danger.

A white-dialed edition followed in 2015 in time for the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission ... Snoopy traveling in the Command and Service Module (CSM)—which actually rotates around ...