When an oxygen tank exploded mid-flight, the Apollo 13 crew was left stranded thousands of miles from Earth with limited power, oxygen, and no clear way home.

Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third moon landing in 1970. An ...

With other engineers, Frances “Poppy” Northcutt plotted return-to-Earth trajectories for Apollo 8. Northcutt’s team also troubleshot the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion emergency. She worked ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...