Idk, maybe I'm making something wrong, but if I trying to entry atmosphere from free-return Moon trajectory (like IRL) - CM just explodes due overheating. Most interesting - heatshield itself isn't ...

James Arthur Lovell Jr., the test pilot turned astronaut who helped prevent the Apollo 13 mission from ending in disaster, died on Thursday at the age of 97. NASA confirmed Lovell’s death on Friday, ...

Lovell guided Apollo 13 back to Earth after a malfunction onboard. Jim Lovell, the commander of the famed Apollo 13 mission, has died, according to NASA. He was 97. "We are saddened by the passing of ...

James “Jim” Lovell, the former NASA astronaut renowned for his heroic leadership during the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has passed away at the age of 97. Lovell was the oldest living former astronaut ...

He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.” James A. Lovell Jr., right, and Fred W. Haise ...

The space explorer was determined throughout his life, says Teasel Muir-Harmony, the curator of the Apollo Collection at the National Air and Space Museum Will Sullivan - Daily Correspondent Jim ...

"Apollo 13" stars Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as three NASA astronauts who must navigate safely back to Earth after their spacecraft encounters troubles on the way to the moon. To ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The first international partnership in space wasn’t the International Space Station. It wasn’t even the Shuttle-Mir series of missions. It was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In the world of "The Last of Us," the Apollo 15 command module and other space exploration ...

On May 13, 1964, NASA launched the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This uncrewed mission would demonstrate that the launch escape system could safely eject the Apollo command module in ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be on ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be on ...