Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peering out the window of the Orion spacecraft at a sliver of the Earth illuminated by the blackness of space. This image was ...

Apollo 13 began as another mission to land astronauts on the Moon before an oxygen tank explosion transformed it into a fight ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

Artemis II has now traveled further into space from Earth than any other human in history, passing the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Artemis II is in the middle of its 10-day mission to ...

The filmmaker's Oscar-winning drama tells the harrowing story of NASA's aborted 1970 lunar mission Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Ron Howard opened up about ...

Apollo 13 faced real issues in liftoff, including engine failure, but the film took some liberties for dramatic effect. NASA's response to the Apollo 13 crisis was methodical, not chaotic like in the ...

Jim Lovell was the famed astronaut for NASA who led the Apollo 13 mission. A Saturn V rocket might have been his coolest ride ...