What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...

The following is an article from history.com With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returns to ...

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. [...] ...

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.

On April 13, 1970 the mission of Apollo 13 changed. Astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise were headed for a lunar landing when they heard a loud bang.

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 ...

Fifty-six years ago Friday, a Biloxi man helped bring a spacecraft safely back to Earth, and his hometown wants to make sure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Houston, we’ve had a problem." Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most ...

Wiseman, Hansen, pilot Victor Glover and Christina Koch were on track to pass as close as 4,070 miles (6,550 kilometers) to ...