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

Astronauts rely on specialised systems in spacecraft and space suits to supply oxygen in the airless environment of space. In ...

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, ...

Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third moon landing in 1970. An ...

Staying alive in space is no simple task. On Earth, breathing is effortless because oxygen is everywhere. But in space, there is none. Astronauts rely on carefully designed systems to survive.

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

NASA astronauts Cmdr. Barry "Butch" Wilmore and pilot Sunita "Suni" Williams spent nine months aboard the space station on what was supposed to be an eightish-day mission.