Apollo 13 Space Mission Disaster (Hour by Hour) Houston, we have a problem! On April 13, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft ...

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

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

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

On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 spacecraft, forcing astronauts to abandon their moon landing and fight for survival.

More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around ...

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. "Houston, we’ve had a problem." Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most ...

Tom Hanks is marking a major moment in space history, and it’s one that hits especially close to home. On Wednesday, April 1, the 69-year-old actor celebrated NASA’s Artemis II launch, the first ...

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 ...