The way Ron explained it to me when we started was, 'Look, I'm not making a documentary. I'm making an entertaining movie ...

Here's everything to know about NASA's 1970 space mission Apollo 13, including its purpose, what went wrong, if the crew survived and more.

But the movie is as much a celebration of the scientists who brought them home as the astronauts who kept their cool while ...

On Ron Howard's 'Apollo 13,' Tom Hanks' space nerd credentials made him a guiding force for the other actors in striving for ...

After landing on the Moon, NASA’s Apollo Program faced budget cuts, public apathy—and a near-deadly crisis. Apollo 13 would test the limits of human ingenuity like never before.

It was only after a mid-mission explosion forced NASA to plot a new return course that Apollo 13’s Odyssey command module set the previous record at 248,655 miles (400,171 kilometers) from Earth.

Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced. He was 87. “We ...

NASA’s highly anticipated Artemis III mission will see the first woman and first person of color step onto the lunar service in a moment that will also mark the first human lunar landing since 1972.

On April 14, 1970, NASA’s Apollo 13 crew was nearly to the moon when the “problem” occurred. And if you were alive then, or if you’ve seen Ron Howard’s powerful 1995 film “Apollo 13 ...

Ken Mattingly, who orbited the moon and commanded a pair of NASA shuttle missions, but who was remembered as well for the flight he didn’t make — the near-disastrous mission of Apollo 13 ...

Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event. Launched in 1970, what was meant to be the third moon landing became a desperate fight for ...