On April 11, 1970, NASA astronaut Fred Haise was preparing to follow in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and walk on the surface of the Moon. When Apollo 13 launched into the sunny ...

The Triumph of Apollo 13." On April 11, 1970, NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert were set to follow in the footsteps of giants such as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

13. Lovell was Neil Armstrong's backup for Apollo 11, and then he was put on the schedule for Apollo 14, but he and his crew were bumped up in line. "I went home and I told my wife ...

Apollo 13 was to be the third mission to land on ... a total of 12 astronauts had touched down on the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first person to set foot on the ...

The letter was signed by Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong (at left in the picture ... the last man to walk on the moon; and Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell. The White House is responding ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative ... Apollo 9 and the mid-flight explosion-plagued Apollo 13, as well as concept logos for ...

but the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong Saturday hit close to home in Southern California. Captain of the July 1969 Apollo 13 space mission in which Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin ...

On July 20, 1969, awestruck viewers around the world watched on television as Ohioan Neil Armstrong ... both the Apollo 13 mission and the Challenger disaster. Armstrong passed away in Cincinnati ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which first landed American astronauts on the moon's surface. Of the intrepid crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have tended to ...