On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

Astronaut Fred Haise shared his dramatic experiences aboard Apollo 13 in 1970. Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third moon landing in 1970.

Apollo 13, in which Lovell is played by Tom Hanks, and his crew members, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, by Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton respectively. But this month a new feature-length Netflix ...

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

How Do We Rule The Universe? In 1970, three American astronauts were heading to the moon when disaster struck. Astronaut Fred Haise describes what happened. Originally broadcast 14 April 2010.

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...