Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was the long way around the Moon.

Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their ...

Fifty-six years ago, after a tense race to save the Apollo 13 crew, the astronauts finally splashed down safely. Here’s what ...

The crew just surpassed the record previously set by the Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970 for the farthest distance ever traveled from our home planet.