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

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. [...] ...

It was meant to be another moon landing. Instead, Apollo 13 became a fight for survival. An onboard explosion crippled the ...

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 ...

April 11th has been a day of remarkable events throughout history, ranging from groundbreaking scientific achievements to ...

Apollo 13 launched 55 years ago today. The Daily Beast, this morning: So long, space travel. The White House plans to terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future National Aeronautics ...

There must’ve been such a challenge for everybody involved,” he told Yahoo Entertainment. “I guess that’s part of what you signed up for and the courage it takes to go up” in space.

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on December 4, 1965. According to NASA, the flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes ...

Astronaut Fred Haise shared his dramatic experiences aboard Apollo 13 in 1970. Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third moon landing in 1970.

We'd forgive you for thinking Footloose is how most people fondly remember Kevin Bacon. The '80s box-office smash in which a youthful Bacon leads a small religious town back onto the dance floor ...