The Apollo 13 astronauts were commander James Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert. At age 42, Lovell was the world's most traveled astronaut when he ...

He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned ...

He and his NASA colleagues were credited with jury-rigging a carbon dioxide filter that allowed the astronauts to breathe as ...

Bettmann/Getty Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental ... along with command module pilot Jack Swigert and lunar module pilot Fred Haise. Before the mission, the crew was excited ...

When NASA astronauts on Apollo 13 failed in their attempt to land on the moon, NASA engineers were successful in bringing ...

NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to jury rig a solution for scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air in the Apollo 13 lunar module.

Lovell’s husband, Jim, was the command module pilot of Apollo 8, which in 1968 orbited the moon. He then commanded the Apollo 13 lunar mission 16 months later, which due to a faulty oxygen tank ...

During the infamous Apollo 13 mission, he and a team of engineers in NASA’s Mission Control found the solution to the lunar module’s scrubbing system, which was starting to lose capacity to provide ...

He was 95. Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in ...