*             After oxygen tank #2 blew the Apollo 13 mission apart, imagine a difference course.  In an alternate universe, a ghost… Read more The ghost of Apollo 13

*             Hang in there, it won’t be long, we’re told.  It’s now officially splashdown day, April 17, 1970.  We’re not sleeping, with… Read more 50 years ago: Splashdown day

*             It’s getting cold upstairs, in the Command Module, our “bedroom,” about 40 degrees. “It’s not uncomfortable at all in Aquarius,… Read more Staying the course home

*             We enter April 14, earth time.  For us aboard Apollo 13, days and dates have ceased.  There is only the track… Read more 50 years ago: Turning toward home

*             Flight Day 3 dawns, if that’s the word, aboard Apollo 13.  Our Commander, Jim Lovell, contacts Houston.  “We’re awake and getting… Read more A new mission

*             “Nothing much happened on the way to the Moon . . . which was exactly the way the Apollo… Read more 50 years ago: a routine day on the way to the moon

*             It’s April 11th. It’s 1970.  The fury and flood of activity to replace our Command Module pilot is over.  We are a… Read more 50 years ago: Apollo 13 takes flight

*             At midnight, this day fifty years ago, the final countdown for Apollo 13 begins, without a final decision to… Read more Down to the final hours

* * A virus An exposure. Repeated blood tests And the test show no immunity. It sounds like current news,… Read more 50 years ago: No immunity