Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most decorated astronauts and the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13. Lovell rephrased a ...

Called a "successful failure", the crew of Apollo 13 applied what they'd learned at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill as well as flight engineers band in Houston "working the problem" to bring ...

“We lost four thrusters, which has affected our ability to fully control the spacecraft…we were able to finally get docked to the space station, due to heroic efforts by the ground team,” Vet.

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 ...

Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) and his crew brace for re-entry after days of near disaster, with every second of radio silence stretching out the tension. Buy/Rent Apollo 13! Amazon: <a ...

In addition to reconstructing events, the film addresses common questions Teitel frequently receives from audiences, including why the crew did not wear their spacesuits during extreme cold, why the ...

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...

New full-length documentary uses archival footage and mission audio to deliver one of the most detailed and accessible accounts of NASA’s “successful failure” Created specifically for YouTube, the ...