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 ...

This required the crew to turn to Aquarius, their trusty lunar ... moon taken from inside the command module prior to the accident," Apollo 13: Survival" weaves a hypnotic spell of uncertainty ...

A NASA picture shows astronaut Fred Haise, working inside the Apollo 13 lunar module after the explosion ... a smaller vehicle called Aquarius - designed to land on the moon - was still in working ...

Apollo 13 was launched on April 11, 1970. Two days into the mission, an oxygen tank explosion in the service module (SM) changed the flight plan from a lunar landing to survival. With the ...

A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface. The bomber is labeled ...

Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission ... was a command module pilot for ...

From left to right: Apollo 13 Cmdr. Jim Lovell, command module pilot Jack Swigert, and lunar module pilot Fred Haise. As part of training exercises at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

Apollo 13’s lunar module became a lifeboat for the crew after the command module was damaged in an explosion, and it burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere at the end of the mission. But NASA had ...

An extremely rare unreleased photograph from the miracle journey of Apollo 13, showing the terrifying dark void ... ever return from the window of the lifeboat LM Aquarius with the 60mm lens of the ...

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 ...