NASA’s third moon landing mission blasts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Severe oscillations — astronauts called it “pogo” — cause the center engine of the Saturn V second stage to shut down ...
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The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space The latter offers a fresh look at the mission’s harrowing events, using ...
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 ...
FILE - In this April 21, 1970 file photo, Apollo 13 commander James A. Lovell Jr., left, opens the astronauts televised news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, by saying "I'm not a ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — Apollo 13′s astronauts never gave a thought to their mission number as they blasted off for the moon 50 years ago. Even when their oxygen tank ruptured two days later — on April ...