In April 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was supposed to be another routine journey to the Moon. Instead, it became one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, ...

Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most decorated astronauts and the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13. Lovell rephrased a ...

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 ...

One of just 24 people to have flown to the moon, famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell was the first person to fly there twice, but never landed on its rocky surface. Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, is ...

James Lovell, the pioneering U.S. astronaut whose two dramatic missions to the moon included Apollo 13, the nearly disastrous trip that captivated the world and decades later inspired a triumphant ...

Jim Lovell, the legendary commander of the fateful Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, died on August 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois at the age of 97. Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said in a statement, ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

Former NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, died Thursday in Illinois. He was 97. Lovell was a Navy test pilot selected for NASA’s second group of astronauts in ...

James Lovell was the commander of the Apollo 13 mission. The dramatic story of those astronauts returning to earth after major mechanical problems in space was made into a hit movie starring Tom Hanks ...