Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...
Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...
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'Apollo 13' coming to IMAX: What to know about the mission led by Jim Lovell, played by Tom Hanks
Houston, we have an ... IMAX release. More than 55 years ago, three astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon their dreams of reaching the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered some ...
NASA’s third moon landing mission blasts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Severe oscillations — astronauts called it “pogo” — cause the center engine of the Saturn V second stage to shut down ...
This story originally posted Sept. 17, 2016. It is being republished as part of the Chronicle's 125 series. By the time Apollo 13 launched in April 1970, Americans already had walked on the moon twice ...
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