chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970. ­After an onboard explosion left their Moon-bound craft leaking oxygen ...

The BBC World Service has launched a special podcast series to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo ... 13 minutes of descent before touchdown on the lunar surface. That period of the mission ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines ... traveled ever farther and collected more moon rocks on their missions. Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an explosion ...

Crewed by Nasa astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third American mission to land on the lunar surface. During the journey to the Moon, an ...

You can launch a Space Launch System of your own with this Estes NASA SLS model rocket for a ... in space after watching the movie "Apollo 13" as a teenager in 1996, kickstarting a lifelong ...

Houston: “This is Mission ... Apollo 13 the age of Aquarius ended at 141 hours, 30 minutes, ground elapse time.” Announcer: The combined efforts of engineers and space specialists at NASA ...

Image enhancement techniques have shed new light on Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 mission. Imaging specialist Andy Saunders created sharp stills from low-quality 16mm film and by reprocessing original ...

Narrator: NASA has released photos, videos, and audio recordings of its Apollo missions. Audio clip ... Lunar Modules-2, 9, and 13, are in museums, which leaves us with LM-14 and 15.