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An image of Earth taken from Apollo 13 in April 1970. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert had been tasked with in ...

→ Fifty years ago, an exploding oxygen tank pitched Apollo 13 – Nasa’s third planned lunar landing – into a scramble for surviva ...

“ C hris, you better get out here quick; I think we’ve had it!” It was the evening of Monday 13 April 1970 and Flight Director G ...

→ agony of their blood boiling in their veins. Problems with their oxygen supply could lead to the crew rapidly asphyxiating or ...

NASA/ALAMY The race to save Apollo 13 indications that two of the craft’s three fuel cells had failed, the astronauts realised t ...

NASA/SHUTTERSTOCK → for two overwhelmed the Aquarius’s carbon dioxide scrubbers. Nasa’s engineers scram- bled to come up with a ...

GETTY IMAGES The race to save Apollo 13 Nasa communications relay aircraft finally announced it had acquired a signal on Apollo ...

Nasa’s war with the hippies The heroics of Apollo 13 couldn’t mask a growing scepticism among Americans about the space programm ...

Capital days out. London’s Underground Railway | A history of the Tube The London Backstreet Walk | From Hyde Park to The Tower ...

→ For centuries, Mary Tudor has been portrayed as a heartless zealot with the blood of hundreds of Protestants on her hands. But ...

“ A horrible and bloody time.” That’s how the 16th-century Puritan preacher John Foxe described the reign of Mary I. And it’s a ...

→ gratia, even rendered her beautiful”. As for the idea that she was dour and austere, this is belied by an anecdote relayed by ...

The brilliance of Mary I AKG-IMAGES/BRIDGEMAN Four years into the co-monarchy, Mary was more secure on the throne – and Philip m ...

BRIDGEMAN Alexander Samson is a reader in early modern studies at University College London. His latest book, Mary and Philip: t ...

Scots free Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, and Robert Bruce hold up the Declaration of Arbroath on a monument in the town. In recent ...

The Declaration of Arbroath – sealed 700 years ago – is hailed as a historic cry for Scottish self‑determination in the face of ...

ÒFor so long as 100 of us remain alive, we will never give consent to subject ourselves to the dominion of the English. For it i ...

cited the “universal value” of the text. As a medieval document able to inspire modern readers, the Declaration of Arbroath is r ...

Declaration of Arbroath GETTY IMAGES Michael Brown is professor of Scottish history at the University of St Andrews. He is the a ...