When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, and that of the attached command module spacecraft, suddenly became crystal clear. The astronauts lost ...

Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.

Space industry insiders have a love-hate relationship with Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13. On one hand, the movie depicted many aspects of NASA’s Apollo program with an extremely high degree of ...