What started as a real-life tense mid-space alert became a Hollywood zinger and landed in our everyday lingo.In this piece, ...

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Kluger, who has written about the Apollo Program, talks about his new book: 'Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold ...

Every step that ensured the astronauts’ safety was guided by a small, cross-disciplinary unit of NASA experts — eventually ...

The Fourth of July arrived and we celebrated one more day of our independence. And what better way to do it than living great stories that speak of our honor and patriotism through ...

On Ron Howard's 'Apollo 13,' Tom Hanks' space nerd credentials made him a guiding force for the other actors in striving for ...

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

Robert "Ed" Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an ...

What was supposed to be a routine moon mission turned into a fight for survival. When an oxygen tank exploded mid-flight, the Apollo 13 crew was left stranded thousands of miles from Earth with ...

In Apollo 13 Survival, the closing scenes focus on the astronauts' race to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere. The crew gets stranded after a life-threatening oxygen tank explosion.

Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, but a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission.

On the night of April 13, 1970, a catastrophic explosion rocked the Apollo 13 spacecraft, leaving three astronauts stranded 200,000 miles from home amid rapidly dwindling oxygen and power supplies.