Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed the crew — Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise -- to slingshot around the moon and return to earth safely, using the ...

Jim Lovell, a Navy man ... tank almost cost Lovell and his crewmates their lives. Quick thinking, in space and in mission control, was required to return the crew safely to earth.

Up in space, Jim Lovell suspected that he and his crew mates ... If that had happened then we might have given up’.” Although down at mission control medics told the crew to try and get ...

Let's start with NASA. The US space agency has never given astronauts suicide pills in case missions go wrong. Jim Lovell – who commanded the Apollo 13 mission – explained that in space ...

This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit.