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 ...

Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most decorated astronauts and the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13. Lovell rephrased a ...

Called a "successful failure", the crew of Apollo 13 applied what they'd learned at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill as well as flight engineers band in Houston "working the problem" to bring ...

In April 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was supposed to be another routine journey to the Moon. Instead, it became one of the most dramatic survival stories in the history of space exploration. Two days ...