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 ...

From the team behind the multi-award winning series, 13 Minutes to the Moon, which aired on the BBC World Service in 2019, comes the incredible story of Apollo 13, as told by the astronauts in ...

Gene Kranz (in vest, as Apollo 13 safely splashed down) had faith that "as a group, we were smart enough ... to get out of any problem. Associated Press Forty years ago, for several unbearably ...

Written and narrated by Jeffrey Kluger—author of Apollo 13 and Apollo 8—Countdown recreates the space crises that every astronaut has feared, and that an unlucky handful were forced to live.

On January 27, 1967, during a practice launch countdown, a flash fire erupted ... and collected more moon rocks on their missions. Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an ...

Video journalist: Ellen Tsang Listen to the full epic story of Apollo 13 on the 13 Minutes to the Moon podcast from BBC World Service. The all-female crew are back on Earth after reaching space on ...

Still, Apollo 13 — carrying astronauts Jim Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise — makes it to Earth orbit on schedule. The Apollo 13 command module, Odyssey, breaks away from the rest of the ...

Image enhancement techniques have shed new light on Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 mission. Imaging specialist Andy Saunders created sharp stills from low-quality 16mm film and by reprocessing original ...

File Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress In 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission. The attempt was aborted after an ...

The Apollo 13 mission, part of NASA’s ongoing human space flight program, had gone desperately wrong after an explosion mid-way through the lunar journey. Now, the crew had abandoned their ...