When an oxygen tank exploded mid-flight, the Apollo 13 crew was left stranded thousands ... around the clock to bring them back safely. A disaster that could have ended in tragedy became one ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

An explosion hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth; a spacecraft leaking oxygen and losing power; a crew freezing in the ... comes the incredible story of Apollo 13, as told by the astronauts ...

an explosion in an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 aborted that mission. Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed the crew — Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise ...

Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third moon landing in 1970. An ...