When accessing the above URL, ``In 1969, the world focused on Apollo 11 to see the moon landing.The risk of landing was so high that a speech manuscript was prepared ...

Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...

Apollo 11 fulfilled JFK’s promise to land a man on the Moon and return him safely—but the White House quietly prepared for ...

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 ...

Tate Taylor is set to direct an imaginative alternate history of the 1969 Apollo 11 space mission, titled In the Event of a Moon Disaster. The film gets its name and concept from a speech President ...

WHEN Marilyn Lovell’s astronaut husband, Jim, blasted off aboard Apollo 13, the world watched with anticipation as he embarked on NASA’s third mission to the moon. But disaster struck 200,000 miles ...

New Netflix documentary reveals minute-by-minute how astronauts' dreams of landing on the moon quickly gave way to a desperate fight for survival WHEN Marilyn Lovell’s astronaut husband, Jim, blasted ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday.

Apollo 13 was meant to land on the Moon, but an explosion turned it into a desperate fight for survival. This is the story of ...

Tom Hanks portrayed Jim in the Hollywood film 'Apollo 13' SPACE veteran and heroic Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. Jim passed away on August 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois with ...

The proud Cleveland native was one of NASA's most traveled astronauts as he went to space a remarkable four times. He was on board Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and the infamous Apollo 13. Jim was ...