What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
The Grand Rapids Public Museum and the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association will host a special screening of a documentary on the Apollo 1 disaster.
More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around ...
Before Apollo 11 ever left the launchpad, Nixon's speechwriter was quietly preparing a eulogy for two men who hadn't died yet ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA astronauts, including Grand Rapids native Roger B ...
new video loaded: James A. Lovell Jr., Commander of Apollo 13, Dies at 97 transcript James A. Lovell Jr., the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, led the three man crew, narrowly surviving a near ...
Astronaut Jim Lovell reads the news after his crew returned safely to Earth from a failed Moon mission in 1970 - Copyright NASA/AFP/File Handout Astronaut Jim Lovell ...
US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. The former ...