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 ...

A replacement for Apollo 10 was found, but the tank was eventually used for the Apollo 13 service module. Before launch, the tank was tested and found to have dropped to 92 percent capacity.

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.

“Apollo 13 is such an iconic story, and, along with Apollo 11, it’s one of the two flights from that Apollo era, which loom the largest in the popular imagination,” said Apollo 13: Survival ...

It's been 40 years since Apollo 13 safely returned to Earth after a oxygen-tank explosion prevented the spacecraft from landing on the moon and put its three-man crew in danger. Four decades later ...

You could say Apollo 13: Survival is a little dry at times, and like other films of its ilk. But to say it isn’t nevertheless riveting would be a lie. Our Call: We’re a go for liftoff: STREAM IT.