After the Moon landing, Apollo entered its most dangerous and scientifically ambitious phase. Apollo 12 survived lightning strikes shortly after launch, while Apollo 13 suffered an oxygen-tank ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, ...

The Apollo 13 mission was meant to be the third lunar landing but the operation was aborted due to serious technical issues, and could have ended in disaster. Following the news of the passing of Jim ...

Apollo 13 became NASA’s most famous survival crisis after an oxygen tank explosion crippled the mission on the way to the Moon. Power loss, improvised engineering, and precise decision-making turned a ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA ...

The astronauts' perilous journey back to Earth was recounted in "Apollo 13," a star-studded film released in 1995 starring Tom Hanks. To mark the Oscar-winning film's 30th anniversary, Universal ...