Gone is the haze of cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke. Gone are the coffee, soda and pizza stains. With only a few exceptions, NASA's Apollo-era Mission Control has been restored to the way it looked 50 ...

This major incident – 200,000 miles from Earth – caused total shock in Mission Control, and the scientists running the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston fell silent. Gerry Griffin, a flight director ...

The Apollo Mission Control Center once buzzed with excitement as flight controllers communicated with the first astronauts to orbit the Earth, land on the moon and pilot shuttles. It’s where dedicated ...

Saturday afternoon marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 13 mission, dubbed the “successful failure” of the Apollo program. Although an explosion prevented astronauts James Lovell Jr.

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Sitting in a broad armchair in the front room of his home near Folkestone, UK, Reg Turnill recalls the ...

BBC Future is given an exclusive tour of the restoration of Apollo mission control, as Nasa hurries to complete it before the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings. There is nothing special about the ...

The astronauts of the Apollo 13 mission reunite. April 13, 2010— -- It took just one sentence to get the world to pay attention to the Apollo 13 mission. "Houston, we have a problem." But in fact ...

There’s no denying the power and exhilaration pumping through the heart of Ron Howard's truly excellent docu-drama detailing the incredible story of NASA's ill-fated third lunar landing mission in ...

NASA has never known anything like it. An explosion hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth; a spacecraft leaking oxygen and losing power; a crew freezing in the darkness, at risk of suffocation.