Called a "successful failure", the crew of Apollo 13 applied what they'd learned at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill as well as flight engineers band in Houston "working the problem" to bring ...

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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The crew of Apollo 13 had successfully repurposed the ship's lunar module to take them back to Earth. The problem was that the module was only ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA ...