On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 blasted off into the Florida skies from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center atop a massive Saturn V rocket. The mission, which was crewed by Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex plans to reopen its Apollo/Saturn V Center to the public later this month. The center and its exhibits, which have been closed since last ...

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 crew left Earth on a Saturn V rocket. Fifty-two years later at 88-years-old, Apollo 13 astronaut, and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise, remembers those harrowing moments, ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Fifty-three years ago today, on April 13, 1970, the Apollo 13 mission suffered a catastrophic failure when an oxygen tank exploded in one of the spacecraft’s service modules.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. And you've all watched Kevin Bacon portraying command module pilot Jack Swigert in the movie as ...

Since the last manned lunar mission, Apollo 17 in 1972, mankind has taken one giant leap backward. Neither the United States nor any other country currently has the means to send a manned mission to ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story stated the explosion happened at 55 hours, 46 minutes into the mission. It happened at 55 hours, 55 minutes. April 13, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of the ...

Famed astronaut Jim Lovell, best known his work on Gemini and Apollo missions, died on Aug. 7, NASA announced. Lovell, 97, died in Lake Forest, Illinois. He served as the command module pilot for the ...

Movies based on real-life events often stretch the truth for dramatic effect, but how far did the 1995 movie "Apollo 13" starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton sway from the actual events of ...

The United States Mint is getting ready to put a rocket in your pocket. As first announced in 2022, the state of Alabama chose NASA's historic Saturn V to appear on a $1 coin as its example of ...