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 ...

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 ...

During the glory days of the space race, Jim Hannigan belonged to a breed of men and women who lived by a noble creed: Work hard for the greater good of the nation and do it without fanfare. From 1962 ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA ...

In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo spacecraft into orbit. Notably, there were 13 ...