The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

Astronauts depend on oxygen tanks while in space, with backup systems in place to prevent emergencies. In the event of an oxygen supply failure, emerg ...

These systems make sure astronauts can work inside the spacecraft without carrying extra oxygen tanks. However, when astronauts go on spacewalks outside the spacecraft, they need special space suits.

Mattingly persuaded personnel at nearby Norfolk Naval Air Station to loan him a Mark IV pressure suit (the kind worn by the Mercury astronauts), an oxygen tank, and a regulator. Sinking the ...

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

Three astronauts, James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swiger, were sent on humanity's third lunar landing mission but found their lives at "real risk" when their ship's oxygen tank began leaking ...

Shortly after astronauts end an evening TV broadcast, they run a routine procedure to stir oxygen in a tank in the service module. A short circuit causes the tank to explode, which damages a ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and team are on ... the importance of contingency planning and problem-solving when an oxygen tank explosion jeopardised the crew's survival. NASA's Lessons Learned ...

An astronaut who flew on one of NASA’s most ... and would have been the third moon landing in 1970. When an oxygen tank exploded, the crew had to abort the lunar landing and return to Earth ...