1970—the whole world watched as NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz led a team that worked around the clock to rescue Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise. After an explosion ...

Bettmann/Getty Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal ... before-seen footage and interviews with the original team, shedding new light on how the astronauts and ground ...

She later told her team: “You have earned your place in history.” The liftoff marked the start of NASA’s Artemis lunar-exploration program, named after Apollo’s mythological twin sister.

After that, he headed the team that reengineered the Apollo capsule and allowed NASA to land on the moon in 1969. Sponsor Message So when it was time for NASA's boldest mission — Apollo 8 ...

NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to jury rig a solution for scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air in the Apollo 13 lunar module.

The first of back-to-back rocket launch days used a familiar booster. The Starlink mission took off on June 10, with an ...

Nasa engineers faced a unique challenge when designing the American flag that would be planted on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission ... Kinzler and his team devised an ingenious solution ...

The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare ... which was meant for the moon landing, as a lifeboat. NASA’s ground team worked around the clock with the astronauts, improvising ...

Related: Apollo 13: Facts about NASA's near-disaster moon mission The ... others to come up with the basic concept, Smylie and his team needed to make sure that it would work.