When Apollo 13 claimed SAG’s outstanding ensemble in a motion picture award ­­— incidentally, in its first year of existence ...

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 ...

On this day 50 years ago at 2:13 p.m. EST, Commander James (Jim) Lovell, Command Module Pilot John Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise launched from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This Saturday (April 11) will mark 50 years since NASA's Apollo 13 mission launched on an ...

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, ...

Famed Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97, NASA confirmed on Friday. Lovell’s cause of death was not revealed, but NASA announced that he passed away on Aug. 7 in Lake Forest, ...

Mission controllers discuss the Apollo 13 mission during some point during the last 24 hours before the successful landing on April 17, 1970. How close was Hollywood to depicting a real-life space ...

Ron Howard's Apollo 13 is a beloved docudrama about the real NASA mission, but movies like The Martian and Interstellar ...

Set against highlights from the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, science historian James Burke says "my phone could take Apollo 11 to the moon and back, compared with the computer they had on board at ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. – When a Saturn rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center half a century ago, it carried three astronauts and a lunar lander to take two of them to the moon's surface. On board ...

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 ...