Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Editor’s note: Each month, Dispatch reporters will profile astronauts from Ohio, culminating in a larger story toward the end of the year about all Ohioans who became astronauts. "Houston, we’ve had a ...

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 ...

Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr. was the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 mission. Lovell flew on four space missions, including being one of the first humans to orbit the moon on ...