Against all odds, Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) and his crew survive a harrowing atmospheric re-entry, emerging from a terrifyingly ...

Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) and the engineers at Mission Control analyze the cascading failures of the Apollo 13 spacecraft to find a way to bring the crew home! Get your Playback Pick! Watch Apollo 13 ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John “Jack” Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: Each month, Dispatch reporters will profile astronauts from Ohio, culminating in a larger story toward the end of the year about all Ohioans who became astronauts. "Houston, we’ve had a ...