On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...
With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...
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 ...
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) — The Cosmosphere is paying tribute to Captain Jim Lovell, the Apollo 13 commander whose steady leadership during a near-disaster made him an American hero. Lovell died ...