50 years ago today: the crew of Apollo 13 landed in the South Pacific after the most harrowing space rescue in history. As with every mission, backstage flight controllers & support teams on the ground played a critical role in solving problems to help guide the astronauts safely home. About their return, Mission Commander Jim Lovell said: "And as long as we could get over one crisis after another, we kept, you know, thinking positive until we finally made the landing.” Fast forward to last night: NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan, along with Cosmonaut (and Soyuz Commander) Oleg Skripochka, made this parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan after traveling over 100 million miles aboard the International Space Station. This crew of Expedition 62 studied the human body’s response to long-duration space flight, while Meir conducted the first of three all-woman spacewalks. (Photo: NASA)