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, the third scheduled manned lunar landing, was launched on April 11, 1970, from Kennedy Space Center. ... the astronauts returned to the Command Module and jettisoned the crippled Service ...

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 ...

Tuesday, April 14: 12:43 A.M. Apollo 13 needs to return to its previous free-return trajectory. However, NASA engineers fear the explosion may have damaged the engine on the service module.

A NASA picture taken on April 17, 1970, shows Apollo 13’s damaged Service Module Odyssey, as photographed from the Command Module after being jettisoned. Apollo 13 commander James Lovell is ...

Gary Sinise played Mattingly in the 1995 movie “Apollo 13 ... to have joined the crew of Apollo 13, piloting the command module. ... the spacecraft’s service module exploded, ...

A replacement for Apollo 10 was found, but the tank was eventually used for the Apollo 13 service module. Before launch, the tank was tested and found to have dropped to 92 percent capacity.

Then, 56 hours into the flight, an oxygen tank exploded in the service unit behind the Command Module containing the three astronauts. It blew an aluminum panel off the side of the spacecraft ...

Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced. He was 87. "We ...

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 ...