Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.

Fifty years ago, a catastrophic explosion aboard the Apollo 13 spaceship threatened to maroon three American astronauts in space. With exclusive interviews and rarely seen NASA footage, Fox News and ...

HOUSTON - April 13th is the anniversary of the oxygen-tank explosion that almost turned the Apollo 13 mission into a disaster, with NASA nearly losing the mission’s three-man crew in outer space. What ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Apollo 13 commander James Lovell, who helped turn failed moon mission into triumph of on-the-fly engineering, has died.

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