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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded ...

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 ...

Captain Jim Lovell at Earth to America! which airs on TBS Sunday, November 20 at 8 p.m. 10423MC_80036.jpg (Photo by M. Caulfield/WireImage for Temp Account) The world is mourning the loss of the great ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” were the words of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell when an explosion crippled the spacecraft and threatened the lives of the crew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the problem that drives the action in Apollo 13 was a real life-or-death turn of events for the three astronauts onboard. And ...

The astronaut was portrayed by Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's 1995 movie about the expedition, in which Hanks famously said, "Houston, we have a problem." By The Associated Press James Lovell, the ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, poses for a portrait in his space suit on Feb. 16, 1970. CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn ...