What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
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Apollo 13 rescue that could have ended in disaster

Jim Lovell remembers the Apollo 13 mission as one of the most intense rescue stories in space history, when everything ...
More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around ...
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, ...
The mission’s goal was to land astronauts on the Moon’s Fra Mauro region and conduct scientific experiments, including ...
For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...
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 ...
US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. The former ...
Tom Hanks is marking a major moment in space history, and it’s one that hits especially close to home. On Wednesday, April 1, ...
Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just five remain.
Tom Hanks is paying tribute to Jim Lovell, who died Thursday at age 97. Hanks, who famously played Lovell in Apollo 13, described him in an Instagram post as the kind of person who “lead[s] others to ...