Netflix has begun the countdown to a "re-launch" of one of NASA's most well-known and suspenseful episodes in spaceflight history. The streaming service has scheduled Sept. 5 as the debut of "Apollo ...

The event was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Tom Hanks in 1995, but is documented in a historical format with never-before-seen footage, and interviews with the original team for the ...

There were 11 Apollo space flights. Six of them landed on the moon. Seven were supposed to — but we’ll get to that. The other flight people remember is Apollo 13. That’s because Ron Howard released a ...

The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space The latter offers a fresh look at the mission’s harrowing events, using ...

Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, but a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission. Reading time 4 minutes It’s been more than 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the ...

In “The Last Man on the Moon,” director Mark Craig uses archival footage and recent interviews to delve into the life of Gene Cernan, a lively octogenarian who was an astronaut during the Apollo ...

In Saturday’s Globe, a review by Mark Feeney of a documentary about Apollo 13 mentioned three Apollo missions that “everyone” remembers: Apollo 11, Apollo 14, and Apollo 13 (“On Netflix, revisiting ...

A Journey with Tom Hanks (16 December – 11 January) sees Tom Hanks narrate an epic experience offering a unique perspective on humankind’s past and future voyages to the moon.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Captain Jim Lovell, who was the commander of ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...