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, ...

Apollo 13 was meant to be a routine mission to the Moon—until an onboard explosion turned it into a fight for survival. With ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) – The Cosmosphere is honoring the memory of the doomed Apollo 13 Mission Commander Jim Lovell. Official photo of Commander Jim Lovell (Courtesy NASA) Lovell served as commander ...

A moment to remember NASA astronaut James Lovell. Lovell flew in space four times, including as commander of the near-catastrophic Apollo 13 mission in April of 1970. An oxygen tank exploded aboard ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story stated the explosion happened at 55 hours, 46 minutes into the mission. It happened at 55 hours, 55 minutes. April 13, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of the ...

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 ...

The Apollo 13 mission had a lifelong impact on Lovell But the big rescue mission was still to come. That was during the harrowing Apollo 13 flight in 1970. Lovell was supposed to be the fifth man to ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, poses for a portrait in his space suit on Feb. 16, 1970. CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...