What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

The Artemis II crew encountered a second toilet malfunction aboard the Orion spacecraft this week, just as the mission’s elapsed time approached the duration of the Apollo 13 flight. The Universal ...

As the eyes of America turned to Artemis II via an array of live newscasts and streaming networks, the astronauts broke NASA's Apollo 13 record by venturing beyond 248,655 miles from Earth — setting a ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes ...

Like this article? Keep independent journalism alive. Support HuffPost. The astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II have now traveled farther from Earth than any other humans in history, breaking the ...

In April 1970, Apollo 13 became one of the most well known missions in human spaceflight, not for landing on the Moon, but for what went wrong. An oxygen tank exploded during the flight, forcing NASA ...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it’s time to set a new distance record. Launched last week on humanity’s first trip to ...

Shuttle has landed! After the Artemis II mission, audiences are flocking to this iconic historical movie about a much less ...

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...