The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Apollo 13 mission commander, reads a newspaper account of the safe recovery of the problem plagued mission. Lovell is on board the USS Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship for ...

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, Illinois, NASA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" more ...

Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, but a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission. Reading time 4 minutes It’s been more than 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the ...

Apollo 13: Survival (now on Netflix) tells a story so many of us already know, albeit in a new, vital manner. Ron Howard’s 1995 nine-times Oscar-nominated Tom Hanks vehicle Apollo 13 rather famously ...

After the Moon landing, Apollo entered its most dangerous and scientifically ambitious phase. Apollo 12 survived lightning strikes shortly after launch, while Apollo 13 suffered an oxygen-tank ...