NASA flight director, Gene Kranz, now 91 years old, is seen posing with his lifetime achievement award from the American ...

Other mission control teams helped the crew with its ... Public Relations Review 27.4 (2001): 437-448. NASA Apollo 13 Mission Report, 1970. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the ...

and initiative at Mission Control and turned an almost certain catastrophe for NASA into a successful recovery.” Despite their safe return home after a near-brush with death, none of the Apollo ...

But he had already played another significant role in Nasa's exploration of the Moon. After Apollo 11 touched down in 1969, it was Duke - in mission control as the Capsule Communicator ...

The author's new title, recently announced as Good Morning America' s June book club pick on June 3, explores a romantic ...

In his role with NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Smylie was responsible for the development of the environmental control systems for the Apollo program, including the spacecraft and spacesuits used on ...

Kontaratos was one of the unsung heroes of NASA, as he was the engineer responsible for helping save the crew of the Apollo ...

Lunar exploration is entering a new era. Long after the Apollo missions, a renewed international interest comes with ...

Ed Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled ... Smylie was relaxing at home in Houston on the evening of April 13 when Lovell radioed mission control with his famous (and ...