The Space Foundation will honor the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) with the 2008 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration. This award honors the memory and enduring legacy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space ...

The Space Foundation announced today that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the 2006 recipient of the Jack Swigert Award for Space Exploration. The award, which honors the memory of Apollo 13 ...

On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 blasted off into the Florida skies from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center atop a massive Saturn V rocket. The mission, which was crewed by Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert ...

The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including two acting nominations for Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. Much of ...

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft launched with astronauts Jack Swigert, 38, Jim Lovell, 42, and Fred Haise, 36. Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, however, it ...

Forty years ago this week, an American hero who was elected to Congress but who tragically never served was laid to rest at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Jack Swigert was born and raised in Denver and ...

Astronaut John “Jack” Swigert always took time to talk to and encourage children. And so, at the opening celebration Wednesday of a new school in Colorado Springs named for him, his younger sister, ...

The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise's time in space Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise pose for a ...