Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died. He was 97. NASA confirmed his death in a ...

In this April 16, 1970 photo made available by NASA, flight controllers gather in Mission Control in Houston during the last 24 hours of Apollo 13 mission. (NASA via AP) (Uncredited) HOUSTON – Some of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 spacecraft, forcing astronauts to abandon their moon landing and fight for survival. The explosion occurred ...

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 ...

April 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1945, Allied troops liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. French writer Marcel Conversy would describe his 15 months there as a "living hell.

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The Artemis II astronauts traveled 252,756 miles from Earth during a seven-hour lunar flyby. The crew experienced a 40-minute communications blackout while traveling around the far side of the moon.

After traveling deeper into space than any other humans, the Artemis II astronauts pointed their moonship toward home Monday night, wrapping up a lunar cruise that revealed views of the far side never ...

Lunar flyby recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Monday, April 6, lunar flyby by NASA's Artemis II astronauts in their Orion spacecraft. "Artemis II is now entering a solar eclipse that ...

NEWSROOM TONIGHT. I’M PATTRIK PEREZ, WESH TWO NEWS. AND THE OTHER BIG STORY TONIGHT, NASA’S LUNAR FLYBY THIS EVENING HAS BEEN PACKED WITH HISTORIC MOMENTS FOR THE ARTEMIS TWO CREW. WESH 2 NEWS GAIL ...

On a day the crew of Artemis II broke the record set by Apollo 13 for farthest distance from Earth ever flown by humans, they made a request to name two newly identified craters: one to honor their ...