The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

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

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

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 ...

Apollo 13, Ron Howard's docudrama about a disastrous mission to the moon, turns 30 this month. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, 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.

Apollo 13 never made it to the moon as it was intended, but still marked a historic flight for the space program. APOLLO 11 INSIDERS REMEMBER HISTORY'S MOST FAMOUS SPACE MISSION: ‘WE HAD A JOB ...

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft launched with astronauts Jack Swigert, 38, Jim Lovell, 42, and Fred Haise, 36. Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third moon-landing mission, howe… ...

Ed Smylie, engineer who helped save Apollo 13 crew, dies at 95. He and his NASA colleagues were credited with jury-rigging a carbon dioxide filter that allowed the astronauts to breathe as they ...