Ed Smylie, who has died aged 95, was an American engineer who led the team at Nasa which saved the imperiled crew of the ...

Apollo 13 was NASA's third moon-landing mission, but the astronauts never made it to the lunar surface. During the mission's dramatic series of events, an oxygen tank explosion almost 56 hours ...

Bettmann/Getty Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event. Launched in 1970, what was meant to be the third moon landing became a ...

He and his NASA colleagues were credited with jury-rigging a carbon dioxide filter that allowed the astronauts to breathe as ...

He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned ...

Kontaratos was one of the unsung heroes of NASA, as he was the engineer responsible for helping save the crew of the Apollo ...

"I guess that was our 15 minutes of fame," said Smylie in a 1999 interview with a NASA historian. "If you read the book and look at the movie ["Apollo 13"], it sounds like I did all of that.

LOS ANGELES — Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced.

Ken Mattingly, a NASA astronaut who was scrubbed from the Apollo 13 mission a few days before launch after being exposed to measles, then wound up helping devise a plan to return the crew safely ...

Young and Colonel Duke.Credit...NASA All those achievements came after he had been scrubbed at virtually the last moment from the flight of Apollo 13 in April 1970. He was to have orbited the moon ...

So what happened to Apollo 13? Here’s everything to know about one of NASA’s most dramatic missions and its significance in space exploration history. Apollo 13 was slated to be the third ...

Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event. The latter offers a fresh look at the mission’s harrowing events, using archival material ...