"Houston, we have a problem." But the problem that drives the action in Apollo 13 was a real life-or-death turn of events for the three astronauts onboard. And the inherent suspense in how their ...
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 about ...
It’s thirty years since one of the most famous films ever made about space travel came out in cinemas. Apollo 13 was nominated for nine Oscars, and brought the true story of how three astronauts ...
Astronaut and lunar module pilot Fred Haise waits to be hoisted up to a recovery helicopter after landing in the South Pacific (Getty) The obstacles were huge – a sick crew member, oxygen leaking into ...
CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly, can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Ill ...
On 11 April 1970 Nasa sent the Apollo 13 craft into space. The crew were excited to become only the third mission to land on the Moon. Captain Jim Lovell and his fellow astronauts, John 'Jack' Swigert ...
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