Apollo 13 News

In an article this past spring in NASA Quest titled "SpaceTalk," former Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell catalogued the little-known contributions of Blacks in NASA.

NASA is honoring former astronaut Fred Haise on December 2 with their Ambassadors of Exploration Award , given out every few months in recent years to the first generation of explorers who made the moon landings happen.

As a part of the "Works-In-Progress" section of the Cucalorus Film Festival, Film Studies Department Faculty Lecturer Terry Linehan's script was read in front of an audience and discussed at Screen Gems Studios Thursday, Nov.

So on the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo landing, I was happy to watch, with my granddaughter, Julia, age 9, NASA-channel films of the manned moon missions.

Loading... In the space race of the 1950s and '60s, the leading voices were rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and another guy.

When the lunar module Eagle landed on the moon 40 years ago, I was in Denver with my five sisters, mom and dad watching the blurry, ghostly images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin tentatively walk on a barren sea called Tranquility.

Tom Hanks was already well-settled in his role as Hollywood’s “everyman” by the time he played “Forrest Gump” in 1994.

Purdue University is looking to find the next Neil Armstrong, or Buzz Aldrin with the annual Space Day program on campus.

Hear the story of what really happened on Apollo 13 from two of the astronauts who were on board, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise.

Movies and Events) Not 15 minutes into Adrian Lyne's movie, SoHo becomes an apocalyptic wind tunnel that blows Diane Lane from the Kansas of Richard Gere into the Oz of Olivier Martinez's arms.

Actors from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" join star astronauts this weekend at Kennedy Space Center for the Astronaut Autograph and Memorabilia Show.

The highlight of this year's Austin Film Festival was listening to director Ron Howard , writer Steve Zaillian and writer Mitchell Hurwitz discuss filmmaking at the historic Paramount Theater.

Written by Michael M. Martino, Jr. on Oct 28th, 2009 and filed under Columns , Dry Martino .

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It was a weekend full of panels, parties and screenings at this year's Austin Film Festival.

In a lively conversation with Scott Simon for the public TV series Backstage With ... , Tom Hanks took on the perils - and pleasures - of fame.

A still from the film Angels and Demons, starring Tom Hanks. Photograph by: Columbia Pictures, GENEVA a ' The European physics laboratory that reassured us it wouldn't destroy the Earth in a "Big Bang" experiment last year is now telling people not to fret about antimatter.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Source: Zero Gravity Corporation - Comments Fourteen-Year-Old Leaunteen Barnes Experienced Zero Gravity to Help Inspire Other Students This past weekend Zero Gravity Corporation ), the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, hosted its exclusive ZERO-G Weightless ...

Houston, we've had a problem. Words forever tied to the Apollo 13 mission, which launched April 11, 1970 with intentions to land on the moon.

The Austin Film Festival, which kicks off on October 22, will be hosting quite possibly one of the coolest retrospectives that any space nerd could hope for.