Crewed by Nasa astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third American mission to land on the lunar surface. During the journey to the Moon, an ...

13 Minutes to the Moon details the final ... This was the essence of mission control. The Apollo flights threw up problems with complex systems, that arose in real time, and which had to be ...

Kranz was not claiming that failure was never an option; he was insisting that his team must not fail when it mattered most.

News Wrap: At least 30 people killed as severe storms sweep the Deep South Arts Apr 09 Apollo 13 ... Hollywood Apollo 13's best known quotes originated not in space or Mission Control, but ...

This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit.

On Apollo XIII, it remained forever dark. The Apollo program was a pencil-and-paper enterprise. The missions were conceived and flown in the era before calculators and touch screens and heads-up ...

In July 1969, four faculty members traveled from College Park to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide last-minute ...