For the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 13 space mission, watch the iconic "Houston, We Have a Problem" scene from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the problem that drives the action in Apollo 13 was a real life-or-death turn of events for the three astronauts onboard. And ...

Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) and the engineers at Mission Control analyze the cascading failures of the Apollo 13 spacecraft to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Apollo 13's astronauts never gave a thought to their mission number as they blasted off for the moon 50 years ago. Even when their oxygen tank ruptured two days later -- on ...

Credits: Directed by Peter Middleton, featuring Jim Lovell, Marilyn Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, Gene Kranz and Walter Cronkite. Rating/Running time: TV-14, 98 minutes. Streaming on Netflix. On ...

Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, but a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission. Reading time 4 minutes It’s been more than 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” were the words of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell when an explosion crippled the spacecraft and threatened the lives of the crew ...

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The astronaut was portrayed by Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's 1995 movie about the expedition, in which Hanks famously said, "Houston, we have a problem." By The Associated Press James Lovell, the ...