Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John “Jack” Swigert radioed a troubling message to Mission Control: "OK, Houston, we've had a problem.

More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around the Moon, Artemis II is chasing that same frontier on purpose. NASA’s first crewed lunar voyage of the Artemis era is stretching Orion,