What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
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 ...
But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...
Apollo 13 is widely remembered as NASA’s “successful failure.” An onboard explosion crippled the command module just days into the mission, forcing astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise ...
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 ...
More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around ...
Editor’s note: Each month, Dispatch reporters will profile astronauts from Ohio, culminating in a larger story toward the end of the year about all Ohioans who became astronauts. "Houston, we’ve had a ...