But NASA faced another challenge to the moon landing—they needed to bring astronauts ... in devising the solution that allowed Apollo 13 to survive. The Apollo astronauts had one shot to fire ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, however, it quickly turned into a near-disaster when the crew notified Mission Control with 'Houston, we've had a problem.' ...

A Brookhaven High School graduate credited with saving the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts died peacefully in Tennessee ...

Gene Kranz (in vest, as Apollo 13 ... to rescue Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise. After an explosion of an oxygen tank partially crippled the moon-bound spacecraft ...

It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, ...

File Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress In 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission. The attempt was aborted after an ...

Robert “Ed” Smylie stands next to the command center used during the Apollo missions. Smylie, an MSU alumnus who played a ...