What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...

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. [...] ...

Humanity on Monday traveled the farthest ever into space, breaking the record set more than 50 years ago by Apollo 13.

Approaching the near side of the Moon. The Artemis II astronauts have surpassed the record for the distance from Earth at ...

On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 returned to Earth after narrowly avoiding a deadly disaster in space. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John “Jack” Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

Apollo 13 mission commander and astronaut Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. “We are saddened to announce the passing of our beloved father, USN Captain James A. ‘Jim’ Lovell, a Navy pilot and ...

Apollo 13 Space Mission Disaster (Hour by Hour) Houston, we have a problem! On April 13, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft ...

Fifty-six years ago Friday, a Biloxi man helped bring a spacecraft safely back to Earth, and his hometown wants to make sure ...

Artemis II astronauts got a special wake-up message from legendary astronaut Jim Lovell, the late commander for the Apollo 13 ...

Artemis II's roughly six-hour lunar flyby Monday is due to set a distance record for human spaceflight and promises views of the lunar far side and a solar eclipse.