What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

Artemis II has now traveled further into space from Earth than any other human in history, passing the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Artemis II is in the middle of its 10-day mission to ...

Apollo 13 Space Mission Disaster (Hour by Hour) Houston, we have a problem! On April 13, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft suffered a catastrophic explosion that left the three astronauts stranded in ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes ...

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The four astronauts eclipsed the distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in April 1970.

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 Artemis II crew has now traveled farther from Earth than any other human ever on its way to the moon. At 1:57 p.m. on Monday, April 6, Artemis II's astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft, traveled ...

HOUSTON (AP) — 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 ...