The claim: Jack Black’s mother helped design a system that contributed to the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts. Jack Black has more than 160 acting credits to his name, but his mother’s ...

Tom Hanks' Apollo 13 turns 30 and still stands tall among space films with gripping realism, powerful drama, and ...

Aquarius," writes Haise, "serving as a lifeboat on the Apollo 13 aborted lunar mission, saved the crew even though pressed beyond design specs." The Apollo 13 moon mission was aborted about ...

The propeller that helped thrust the USS Shangri-La aircraft carrier and figures into a pivotal scene from the Apollo 13 ...

Apollo 13 launched on Saturday April 11, 1970 at 1:13 in the afternoon with commander Jim Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot Jack Swigert. And it wasn’t flawless.

As the Apollo 13 crew separated the Command Module from the Lunar Module that had served them so well and so far beyond its design life, CAPCOM Joe Kerwin briefly broke away from the complex argot ...

Jack Black's mom was Judith Love Cohen, a NASA engineer who helped create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.

Apollo 13 Exterior Photo: Michael Corenblith . In addition, the crew logged over three hours of flight time on the KC-135 (aka the "Vomit Comet"), a special NASA airplane capable of recreating ...

Ed Smylie, the NASA engineer who helped save the lives of the Apollo 13 crew, has died at 95. In dramatic moments made famous by the 1995 Academy Award-winning movie of the same name, Smylie and ...

Here's everything to know about NASA's 1970 space mission Apollo 13, including its purpose, what went wrong, if the crew survived and more.

Fifty years later, Apollo 13 shows how leaders can navigate crises like COVID-19 Like Apollo 13, leaders might have only one shot at getting their strategy and execution right in the wake of a ...