It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, ...

Robert “Ed” Smylie stands next to the command center used during the Apollo missions. Smylie, an MSU alumnus who played a ...

A Brookhaven High School graduate credited with saving the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts died peacefully in Tennessee ...

Things took a new turn 55 hours into the mission, when Apollo 13 was about 180,000 nautical miles from Earth. One of the liquid oxygen tanks started to malfunction, giving an off-scale high ...

A Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission died on Monday. Robert ‘Ed’ Smylie was born in ...

Inside the Apollo 13 lunar module, a view of the "mail box ... atmosphere (only the command module was designed to return to Earth intact). After working with others to come up with the basic ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

File Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress In 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from ... but the astronauts safely returned to Earth. In 1983, voters elected Harold Washington ...

Upon release, Apollo 13 was extolled for its design ... inspirational, yet very down-to-earth flight director Gene Kranz. The amount of research that went into this is palpable, even if the ...