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 ...

Mr. LOVELL: (Voiceover) Fred Haise was going, you know, to keep it from going sideways. (Video from Apollo 13) Mr. LOVELL: And, of course, he’s sick at this time ...

The Apollo 13 crew consisted of Commander James ‘Jim’ Lovell Jr., Command Module Pilot John ‘Jack’ Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise Jr. Fifty-one years later, the surviving ...

Joining Lovell and Haise at Space Center Houston for the anniversary were three of the four flight directors who led Mission Control during Apollo 13: Milt Windler, Gerry Griffin and Gene Kranz.

One of the biggest heroes, according to Lovell, was Gene Kranz, the lead flight director at Johnson Space Center, who formed a “Tiger Team” after the explosion rocked the Apollo 13 service ...

Lovell, Haise and Jack Swigert, a last-minute fill-in who died in 1982, were almost to the moon when they heard a bang and felt a shudder. One of two oxygen tanks had burst in the spacecraft’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 April 13.