Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise recounts ill-fated mission: ... Celebrating Space Exploration 50 Years After Apollo 11. ... A swarm of debris from the explosion also made navigation difficult.

On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 blasted off into the Florida skies from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center atop a massive Saturn V rocket. The mission, which was crewed by Jim Lovell, Jack ...

Space is a dangerous place. There's harmful radiation to contend with, dangerous debris zipping through orbit and, of course, the possibility that a vital piece of equipment will malfunction.

When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, and that of the attached command module spacecraft, suddenly became crystal clear. The astronauts ...

After an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13 in 1970, the crew and mission control at Johnson Space Center faced hurdle after hurdle in devising a way to get the astronauts home safely. The crew ...

Space Apollo 13: Houston, we've had a ... left over from some of the debris. ... These extracts are from the newly released searchable version of NASA’s Apollo 13 transcripts at spacelog.org.