Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

Gene Kranz (in vest, as Apollo 13 safely splashed down ... Kranz’s wife, Marta, created the garment that would establish a Mission Control tradition. In 1962, when the Kranzes moved into ...

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 ...

The astronauts are now not the only group at NASA with a jacket of their own.

The Apollo 13 mission, part of NASA’s ongoing human ... “It never really converged to the point where you felt you really had total control of what was going on.” Within days of launch ...

"We call the first row in the control ... the mission is under way, I'm Flight. And Flight is God." Astronaut Jim Lovell, who experienced nearly catastrophic problems on Apollo 13, put it another ...

A new book uses 50 objects to ... spacecraft telemetry and assure that mission operations were conducted safely. Above is the control panel of the Apollo Mission Simulator, used to test the ...