WHEN Marilyn Lovell’s astronaut husband, Jim, blasted off aboard Apollo 13, the world watched with anticipation as he embarked on NASA’s third mission to the moon. But disaster struck 200,000 ...
It wasn’t the disaster that came to define Apollo 13. A far worse outcome occurred on January 21, 1967, when all three Apollo 1 astronauts were killed in a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test.
On the night of April 13, 1970, a catastrophic explosion rocked the Apollo 13 spacecraft, leaving three astronauts stranded 200,000 miles from home amid rapidly dwindling oxygen and power supplies.
The new and improved brains can monitor the engines—including during an impending disaster. “Things can be done to correct or save the mission and, in a worst-case scenario, shut an engine down before ...
The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space Maddie Garfinkle has been contributing to PEOPLE since 2024.
Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. Apollo 13: Survival uses archive material and rare access to the complete audio recordings of the mission of astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert ...
Greens Senator Steph Hodgins-May will visit Victoria's Surf Coast on Thursday to speak with communities concerned about the proposed seismic blasting ...