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 ...
On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft launched with astronauts Jack Swigert, 38, Jim Lovell, 42, and Fred Haise, 36. Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, however, it ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the problem that drives the action in Apollo 13 was a real life-or-death turn of events for the three astronauts onboard. And ...
FILE - Apollo 13 Command Module Pilot, Thomas Kenneth Mattingly, center, speaks with guests during GlobalSpec's presentation of a Great Moments In Engineering Award at Space Center Houston, April 19, ...
To the average American living in 1970, the space program had become rather humdrum. The previous year had witnessed Apollo 11’s historic first Moon landing and Apollo 12’s precision touchdown within ...
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 ...