‘Dad always says: ‘Never leave home without duct tape!’,” chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970.

But in 1969, everything was in place for the Apollo Program to make history, with the first lunar ... for the dramatic near-disaster of Apollo 13, in which the ingenuity of astronauts and Mission ...

13 Minutes to the ... of the greatest events in history Our road trip across America in search of the people and stories that together were the essence of the Apollo programme was a labour of ...

But Lovell is best remembered as commander of the Apollo 13 mission, where an oxygen tank exploded two days after the launch, depleting oxygen and power inside the command module odyssey.

He notes that the American flag is distinctively powerful and seems to be present in the imagery of almost every key event in American history, from Apollo moon landings to firefighters raising ...

In 1970, Apollo 13 was to be man’s third landing on the moon. Unknown Speaker: "Five, four, three, two, one, zero, we have commit and we have..." Announcer: Apollo 11 and 12 had set the course ...