ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In the course of explaining how he helped save the crew of Apollo 13, Ken Mattingly mentions, as an aside, that “in the process of going through all this [power-up procedures for the ...
For most people, going to the Moon or even just to space would be a dream come true. But one Apollo astronaut has offered a rather different perspective on his journey into the great unknown. The rest ...
On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 crew left Earth on a Saturn V rocket. Fifty-two years later at 88-years-old, Apollo 13 astronaut, and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise, remembers those harrowing moments, ...