When Apollo 13 claimed SAG’s outstanding ensemble in a motion picture award ­­— incidentally, in its first year of existence ...

On this day 50 years ago at 2:13 p.m. EST, Commander James (Jim) Lovell, Command Module Pilot John Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise launched from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

"Houston, we have a problem." 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 the inherent suspense in how their ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This Saturday (April 11) will mark 50 years since NASA's Apollo 13 mission launched on an ...

Ron Howard's Apollo 13 is a beloved docudrama about the real NASA mission, but movies like The Martian and Interstellar ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

The astronauts of the Apollo 13 mission reunite. April 13, 2010— -- It took just one sentence to get the world to pay attention to the Apollo 13 mission. "Houston, we have a problem." But in fact ...

Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13 dramatized the nearly catastrophic but gloriously heroic lunar mission by the same name that took place in 1970. Starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon as ...

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an ...

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 ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. – When a Saturn rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center half a century ago, it carried three astronauts and a lunar lander to take two of them to the moon's surface. On board ...