Apollo 13 was meant to be a routine mission to the Moon—until an onboard explosion turned it into a fight for survival. With ...

Called a "successful failure", the crew of Apollo 13 applied what they'd learned at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill as well as flight engineers band in Houston "working the problem" to bring ...

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On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...

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, ...