Apollo 13 will always be remembered as the mission that failed spectacularly. The oxygen tank exploded two days into the journey; there was no moon landing; and the astronauts who made it back to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Apollo 13 space mission in April 1970 riveted the public as NASA successfully saved the three astronauts onboard after a ...

But the big rescue mission was still to come. That was during the harrowing Apollo 13 flight in April 1970. Lovell was supposed to be the fifth man to walk on the moon. But Apollo 13's service module, ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...

The filmmaker's Oscar-winning drama tells the harrowing story of NASA's aborted 1970 lunar mission Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Ron Howard opened up about ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were determined to reach ...

"Houston, we've had a problem.." Many have heard the iconic message and it became a staple in regular conversation and pop culture years after. The phrase is often used when a situation has become ...