Apollo 13 News

Forty years ago, the world stopped turning just for a minute, and everyone looked up.

The often soft-spoken, slightly built Joe Spano came into the public eye after more than a decade as a stage player in the San Francisco Bay Area when he was cast as Det.

Studio: The Criterion Collection Year: 1989 Cast: Jim Lovell, Rusty Schweikart, Gene Cernan, Michael Collins, Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean, Jack Swigert, Stu Roosa, Jim Irwin, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke, Harrison H. Schmitt Director: Al Reinert Release Date: July 14, 2009 Rating: Not Rated for Run Time: 01h:20m:06s Genre : documentary ...

Focus The last sons of Apollo This July, 19 1969 photo released by NASA shows the Earth as seen from the Apollo 11 command module as it orbits the moon before the landing of the lunar module.

The Apollo 11 landing marked one of the greatest technological achievements in human history as Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on another world.

The Eagle, the lunar module of Apollo 11, prepares to dock with the command module after ascending from the Moon's surface.

I watched the Apollo 11 moon landing from a small Mediterranean beach town. In Italian with Walter Cronkite muffled in the background.

Maybe you no longer remind yourself to head outside and look north, hoping to catch the rockets' red glare or smoke contrail as a Space Shuttle lifts off.

" The Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute announced today that they are holding their 105th Convention and Annual Meeting to be held June 28th to June 30, 2009 at Snowmass Village, Colorado.

"Houston, we have a problem ...". is where the fun begins in an innovative play which asks the audience to help get the Apollo 13 astronauts home safely.

Just before 11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 20, 1969, a 38-year-old father of two from Wapakoneta, Ohio climbed to the bottom of a metal ladder, spoke a few words, and changed the course of human history forever.

Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002.

Monday, 22 June 2009, 5:23 pm Press Release: Bats Theatre Revolutionary theatre APOLLO 13 to orbit NZ Imagine what it might be like to be 200,000 miles away from Earth, trapped in the vast emptiness of space in a capsule no larger than a Morris Minor.

It is 40 years since the words, 'The Eagle has landed,' sent a thrill around the world.

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard have long promoted what Hanks calls the "foolhardy yet divine voyage" to Earth's nearest neighbour.

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born on July 9, 1956 in Concord, California to Amos Mefferd Hanks, a distant relative of President Abraham Lincoln and Janet Marylyn Frayer, a hospital worker.

Fred Haise still dreams of the Moon. Immortalised in space and Hollywood legend as the lunar module pilot who almost perished aboard the ill-fated Apollo 13, when he finally returned to Earth his near-death experience should have grounded any further ambition.

Ride, Aldrin and Lovell in the Louis Vuitton new Core Values campaign. Louis Vuitton marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings in its latest ad campaign.

Having managed to convince everyone from Madonna to Mikhail Gorbachev to appear in its ads, Louis Vuitton looked to the heavens for its newest campaign, created by Ogilvy & Mather.

The goal of all that basking in reflected moon glow is to remind the public how good the landing felt.