James Lovell may be best known as the commander of Apollo 13. During that April 1970 mission ... Gemini 12 crewmates Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell celebrate aboard the USS Wasp on November 15 ...

T he genre of movies based on the real missions of NASA is actually a fairly succinct conversation when almost no other ...

when Apollo 13 was about 180,000 nautical miles from Earth. One of the liquid oxygen tanks started to malfunction, giving an off-scale high reading, indicating a failed sensor. Lovell later ...

“It was plagued by bad omens and bad luck from the very beginning,” Jim Lovell, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts ... “We really threw away the book,” Jack Swigert said.

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...