NASA's famous Apollo 13 mission launched 50 years ago, and on April 14 the oxygen tank on its service module exploded. As you undoubtedly know, the mission's Moon landing was canceled after the ...

Ironically, Apollo had been on a free-return trajectory, but its course was changed in preparation for the lunar landing. Thus, five hours and 25 minutes after the service-module explosion ...

A fire inside the Apollo Command Module during a test took the lives ... This NASA schematic details the size of the Apollo space capsules, service modules and lunar landers that would ultimately ...

The Saint Louis Science Center is one of only four stops on the Smithsonian’s special traveling tour of the exhibit Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission. It features various artifacts, footage, and ...