CHICAGO -- 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, Ill ...

Astronaut James Lovell Jr. died in Lake Forest, Ill., on Thursday, Aug. 7 His family confirmed his death in a statement to NASA on Friday, Aug. 8 "We will miss his unshakeable optimism, his sense of ...

"Houston, we've had a problem." Those words, from astronaut James Lovell to NASA, gripped the world for four days in 1970 as astronauts on Apollo 13 worked furiously to get back to earth after an ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. The former ...

Tom Hanks took to Instagram to remember Jim Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in the 1995 Ron Howard–directed film "Apollo 13." Lovell, best known for commanding the near-disastrous Apollo 13 mission ...

Commander and Astronaut James A. Lovell, Jr. – died Thursday at the age of 97. He was one of the three-man Apollo 13 spacecraft crew that set for the moon in April 1970. In 1970, the Apollo 13 ...

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 ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Those words, from astronaut James Lovell to NASA, gripped the world for four days in 1970 as astronauts on Apollo 13 worked furiously to get back to earth after an ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Those words, from astronaut James Lovell to NASA, gripped the world for four days in 1970 as astronauts on Apollo 13 worked furiously to get back to earth after an ...