Two days after liftoff, on April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank in Apollo 13’s service module exploded. The explosion crippled the spacecraft, leaving it without most of its oxygen supply, electricity and ...

Apollo 13’s damaged Service Module Odyssey, as photographed from the Command Module after being jettisoned, after an onboard explosion. (AFP via Getty Images) ...

"Apollo 13," which is heading to IMAX, recounts the perilous 1970 efforts of three astronauts to return to Earth safely ...

So the huge engine on the back of the Apollo 13 service module is fired up to change the ship’s path away from a “free return trajectory.” Monday, April 13: 7:07 PM ...

Days before the Apollo 13 mission launched, the crew was exposed to German measles. According to NASA, backup lunar module pilot Charles Duke exposed the crew to measles.

The way Ron explained it to me when we started was, 'Look, I'm not making a documentary. I'm making an entertaining movie based on facts.'' ...

It was not supposed to happen. When Apollo 13, the third manned mission intended to land on the moon, took off from the Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, no one imagined that after minutely ...

"Apollo 13," which is heading back to IMAX theaters for the film's 30th anniversary, tells the true story of a ...