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

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

Apollo 13, Ron Howard's docudrama about a disastrous mission to the moon, turns 30 this month. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and ...

Here's everything to know about NASA's 1970 space mission Apollo 13, including its purpose, what went wrong, if the crew survived and more.

The crew of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission are shown in their space suits on their way to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Kennedy, Fla., Saturday, April 11, 1970.

Apollo 13 hit the water four miles from the Iwo Jima. ... If the emergency in space had not struck, Apollo 13 would have been leaving lunar orbit for earth about the time spacecraft splashed down.

Apollo 13 commander James A. Lovell Jr., foreground, speaks during a news conference in Cape Kennedy, Fla. in April 1970 before the spacecraft launched on its ill-fated journey to the moon.

Apollo 13 never made it to the moon as it was intended, but still marked a historic flight for the space program. APOLLO 11 INSIDERS REMEMBER HISTORY'S MOST FAMOUS SPACE MISSION: ‘WE HAD A JOB ...

To commemorate the Apollo 13 50th anniversary, a stunning NASA video has also recreated the mission’s trip around the moon using images captured by the space agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Apollo 13 may be the most realistic of space movies, but it doesn’t depict all the events of that space mission precisely as they happened. According to Looper, the filmmakers took some artistic ...

NEW YORK — A keepsake from NASA's nearly disastrous Apollo 13 moon mission of 1970 nabbed top spot in an auction Monday of more than 300 artifacts from the early years of the U.S. space program.