The way Ron explained it to me when we started was, 'Look, I'm not making a documentary. I'm making an entertaining movie ...

But the movie is as much a celebration of the scientists who brought them home as the astronauts who kept their cool while ...

Two days after liftoff, on April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank in Apollo 13’s service module exploded. The explosion crippled the spacecraft, leaving it without most of its oxygen supply, electricity ...

On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 recovery operations took place in the South Pacific. Astronaut and lunar module pilot Fred W. Haise is about to be hoisted up by a recovery helicopter from the USS Iwo ...

In this April 1970 photo provided by NASA, Apollo 13 command module pilot John Swigert helps to hook up a lithium hydroxide canister in the lunar module, in an effort to get rid of carbon dioxide ...

Apollo 13, the third scheduled manned lunar landing, was launched on April 11, 1970, from Kennedy Space Center. The crewmembers were Commander James Lovell, Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise, and Command ...

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Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, ... Aboard were three astronauts: mission commander Jim Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot Jack Swigert, ...

Launched in April 1970, Apollo 13 was planned to be the third mission to land humans on the moon. Instead, an in-flight emergency — an explosion that tore through the spacecraft's service module ...

All those achievements came after he had been scrubbed at virtually the last moment from the flight of Apollo 13 in April 1970. He was to have orbited the moon in the command module while Cmdr ...

According to retired astronaut Kevin Mattingly (portrayed by Gary Sinise), who was Apollo 13’s command module pilot before exposure to German measles forced him to back out of the flight, ...

Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...