Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an explosion in an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 aborted that mission. Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed ...

The lunar module was a whimsically ugly machine ... The original version of another photo caption misstated a label on an Apollo 13 instrument panel. It said “lunar contact,” not “contact ...

With two months to go before flight, the Apollo 13 prime crew of James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly, Fred Haise, and backups John ...

Ed Mitchell piloted the Lunar Module on Apollo 14. Credit: NASA After Apollo 13’s near-disaster and aborted Moon landing, Apollo 14 (1971) saw America’s first astronaut, Alan Shepard ...

NASA's Artemis II mission will be sending a 4-member crew to venture around the Moon. This will be followed by Artemis III, ...

Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his ... never went to space, Lunar Modules-2, 9, and 13, are in museums, which leaves ...

After Apollo 13's near-disaster and aborted Moon landing, Apollo 14 (1971) saw America's first astronaut, Alan Shepard, as the commander with Ed Mitchell as lunar module pilot. Shepard ...