Apollo 13 never made it to the moon as it was intended, but still marked a historic flight for the space program. APOLLO 11 ...

an explosion in an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 aborted that mission. Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed the crew — Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise ...

13 Minutes to the Moon details the final ... This was the essence of mission control. The Apollo flights threw up problems with complex systems, that arose in real time, and which had to be ...

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 ...

On space missions, astronauts often have to make independent decisions quickly. The wrong move at the wrong moment could have ...

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 ...

"The average age of the people in Mission Control for Apollo 13 was 26 years old, and they'd already been on a bunch of missions." An estimated 14% of NASA's workforce is over 40 years old ...

Former NASA astronaut Nicole Stott rates depictions of outer space in "Gravity," "Apollo 13," and "Interstellar" for realism.

Astronauts get all the glory, but true STEM geeks know the people at mission control are superstars, too. Don’t believe us? Take a tour of the Apollo Mission Control Center. In 1985, the room ...