The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a mission lasting nearly 10 ...

Click to open image viewer. As part of the Apollo program, a number of so-called "boilerplate" (BP) command modules were constructed to undergo various tests and to serve as training vehicles for ...

Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...