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 ...

The mission’s goal was to land astronauts on the Moon’s Fra Mauro region and conduct scientific experiments, including ...

More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for re-release. NASA announced Lovell, ...

Houston, we have an ... IMAX release. More than 55 years ago, three astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon their dreams of reaching the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered some ...