He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned him a shout-out from Richard Nixon. By Michael S. Rosenwald Ed Smylie, the ...

Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...

The space explorer was determined throughout his life, says Teasel Muir-Harmony, the curator of the Apollo Collection at the National Air and Space Museum Will Sullivan | Daily Correspondent Jim ...

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 ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” were the words of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell when an explosion crippled the spacecraft and threatened the lives of the crew ...

"Apollo 13" stars Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as three NASA astronauts who must navigate safely back to Earth after their spacecraft encounters troubles on the way to the moon. To ...