The Apollo 13 mission, part of NASA’s ongoing human ... The crew had been required to power down a command module while in space and then later reactivate it. Neither had ever been done before.

Frank Borman was commander, James Lovell navigator and command ... Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever farther and collected more moon rocks on their missions. Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned ...

The Apollo 13 command module, Odyssey, breaks away from the rest of the spaceship, turns around and docks with the lunar module, Aquarius, which has been safely hidden away inside the top of the ...

Almost six days after launch on April 17, severely dehydrated but still alive, tragedy turned to triumph as the Apollo 13 command module splashed down safely in the South Pacific Ocean ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...