The Apollo 13 command module, Odyssey, breaks away from the rest of the spaceship, turns around and docks with the lunar module, Aquarius, which has been safely hidden away inside the top of the ...

NASA's famous Apollo 13 mission launched 50 years ago ... As Saunders reviewed fuzzy 16mm footage recorded by Aldrin from inside the lunar module, which showed Armstrong stepping out onto the ...

A proposal to land the Apollo lunar module on the reverse side of a new ... Related: Lunar legacy: 45 Apollo moon mission photos "A total of 13 lunar modules were built in New York, and six ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon ... and scrambled into the cramped lunar module, Aquarius, for a miserable ride back to Earth. It was a touch-and-go situation for several days ...

Apollo 13’s LM Aquarius NASA via Honeysuckle Creek The three exceptions were Apollo 9, Apollo 10 and Apollo 13. Apollo 9 was an Earth orbital mission so its lunar module burned up in the Earth ...

April 17 (Special) – Here are excerpts of the conversation between Apollo 13 astronauts ... critical hours of the flight today. Aquarius is the lunar module, Odyssey the command module.

including the netting ripped from Apollo 13's Lunar Module "Aquarius." The collection, with an estimated value of $20,000, also includes a note from lunar module pilot Fred Haise to the lunar ...

The Apollo 13 CSM, by contrast, would fire its engine midway to the moon to leave the free-return trajectory. This was necessary so that the mission's Lunar Module (LM) could reach its target ...

The Apollo 13 story parallels a more notorious accident ... Shortly after, the lunar module Aquarius was set free. As the module departed on its separate course, later to burn up in the atmosphere ...

But in fact, those words, immortalized by Tom Hanks in the 1995 film "Apollo 13," were not quite right. The actual sentences, uttered with amazing calm by lunar module pilot Fred Haise went like ...