NASA's famous Apollo 13 mission launched 50 years ago, and on April 14 the oxygen tank on its service module exploded. As you undoubtedly know, the mission's Moon landing was canceled after the ...

As the lunar module separated from the service module of Apollo 13, commander James A. Lovell Jr. got his first look at the damage. Lovell told NASA’s Mission Control, “There is one whole side ...

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

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were ...

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.

Apollo 13 launched on Saturday April 11, 1970 at 1:13 in the afternoon with commander Jim Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot Jack Swigert. And it wasn’t flawless.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, ... 1970, but was aborted 56 hours later when an oxygen tank in the spacecraft’s Service Module exploded.

Interior view of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module (LM) during the trouble-plagued journey back to Earth. ... An oxygen tank in the rear service module exploded, and a second tank was failing.

The third manned mission to the moon was aborted on April 13, 1970, two days after launch, when an oxygen tank exploded, crippling the service module, to which the command module was attached.