On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 spacecraft, forcing astronauts to abandon their moon landing and fight for survival.

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...

Via Youtube: " On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 blasted off on what was to be the third NASA mission to land humans on the moon.

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John “Jack” Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

In April 1970, Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third mission to the moon - but an onboard explosion turned it into a desperate race to bring three astronauts home alive. This video tells the ...

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Houston, we’ve had a problem." Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most ...

More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around ...

Happy 30th Birthday to "Apollo 13!" Director Ron Howard's harrowing true tale of the unlucky Apollo 13 mission to the moon in 1970 still stands as one of the finest space survival movies of all time ...

Editor’s note: Each month, Dispatch reporters will profile astronauts from Ohio, culminating in a larger story toward the end of the year about all Ohioans who became astronauts. "Houston, we’ve had a ...