Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their ...

Fifty-six years ago, after a tense race to save the Apollo 13 crew, the astronauts finally splashed down safely. Here’s what ...

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. [...] ...

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...

The mission’s goal was to land astronauts on the Moon’s Fra Mauro region and conduct scientific experiments, including ...

On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 returned to Earth after narrowly avoiding a deadly disaster in space. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...