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Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its crew ... space-race disaster was in April 1970, when one of Apollo 13’s oxygen tanks exploded, leaving three astronauts ...

an explosion in an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 aborted that mission. Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed the crew — Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise ...

When people think of spaceflight’s Apollo era, it’s either a bygone period of relentless exploration or it was completely ...

All in all, if Apollo 12 had been stopped at that fateful minute or two into the flight, one can say that we might have had the later toils of Apollo 13 and then the entire space program would ...

a solitary man almost lost in shadow, venturing from the safety of the Apollo burrow into the killing cold of space. Spaceflights were often reconnaissance missions and dirty portholes could make ...

But the Apollo project required a number of more ... It was a science fiction piece called 'Lost In Space.' And there were audiences out there that wanted the fiction -- ignoring the tragedy ...

Many of us remember the Apollo 13 mission launched on April 11, 1970, sending three astronauts on what was intended to be ...

When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...

The watch attracted more than 30 bids during the course of RR Auction's latest space-themed sale ... and while aboard the Apollo 14 command module. Similarly, Apollo 13 crew member Jack Swigert ...