After the Moon landing, the Apollo program’s future was uncertain. But in 1970, Apollo 13 turned NASA’s focus back to survival. When an explosion crippled the spacecraft mid-flight, it sparked one of ...

The Apollo 13 mission in 1969, featuring Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, was fraught with peril, a story brought to ...

Kevin Fong explores the incredible story of the flight of Apollo 13 - as told by the astronauts who flew it, and the team on the ground that saved it. NASA has never known anything like it. An ...

New Netflix documentary reveals minute-by-minute how astronauts' dreams of landing on the moon quickly gave way to a desperate fight for survival WHEN Marilyn Lovell’s astronaut husband, Jim, blasted ...

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 aged 97. Mr Lovell died on Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, ...

Jim Lovell, the commander of the famed Apollo 13 mission, has died, according to NASA. He was 97. "We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight ...

‘Apollo 13 had a near-zero chance of survival – but Mum always thought Dad would make it back’ Ahead of a new film, the children of Nasa commander Jim Lovell recall the trauma of his final mission ...

Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.

An astronaut who orbited the moon and helped rescue the crew of the Apollo 13 mission has died at the age of 87. Thomas Ken Mattingly, who was known as TK, died on Tuesday, said NASA, which said the ...

An astronaut who visited the moon in 1972 as part of the Apollo 16 crew and helped design the Apollo spacesuits has died at the age of 87. But he's probably best known for Apollo 13 - the mission he ...

Nasa said he had "turned a potential tragedy into a success" after an attempt to land on the Moon was aborted because of an explosion onboard the spacecraft while it was hundreds of thousands of miles ...