"Houston, we’ve had a problem.." Many have heard the iconic message and it became a staple in regular conversation and pop culture years after. The phrase is often used when a situation has become ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the problem that drives the action in Apollo 13 was a real life-or-death turn of events for the three astronauts onboard. And ...

Credits: Directed by Peter Middleton, featuring Jim Lovell, Marilyn Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, Gene Kranz and Walter Cronkite. Rating/Running time: TV-14, 98 minutes. Streaming on Netflix. On ...

NASA astronaut James 'Jim' Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission of 1970, passed away at the age of 97 on Friday, NASA announced. As the mission commander of Apollo 13, he famously steered ...

A routine oxygen tank stir becomes a devastating explosion that tears through Apollo 13's service module, Jim Lovell (Tom ...

The astronaut was portrayed by Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's 1995 movie about the expedition, in which Hanks famously said, "Houston, we have a problem." By The Associated Press James Lovell, the ...

Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, but a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission. Reading time 4 minutes It’s been more than 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Apollo 13's astronauts never gave a thought to their mission number as they blasted off for the moon 50 years ago. Even when their oxygen tank ruptured two days later -- on ...