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.
Are Apollo and its peers — the KKRs, the Blackstones of the world — are they becoming ... The issue with those claims is a natural disaster is much harder predict than someone’s life expectancy. And ...
Greens Senator Steph Hodgins-May will visit Victoria's Surf Coast on Thursday to speak with communities concerned about the proposed seismic blasting ...