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 about ...
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Click to open image viewer. Shown here is a mock-up of a reaction control system (RCS) engine developed for use on the Apollo Service Module. RCS thrusters like this one were mounted externally in ...
A small team (Appendix 1) was chartered by NASA to make a top-level assessment of the viability of using the Apollo Command and Service Modules the basis for a Crew Return Vehicle, and potentially for ...
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Houston, we have a problem (full scene) | Apollo 13
A routine oxygen tank stir becomes a devastating explosion that tears through Apollo 13's service module, Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) delivering the understated yet chilling report that will become ...
NASA’s third moon landing mission blasts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Severe oscillations — astronauts called it “pogo” — cause the center engine of the Saturn V second stage to shut down ...
What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
Michael Collins—a two-time astronaut who piloted the command module during the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon—died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family ...
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