The Apollo 13 space mission in April 1970 riveted the public as NASA successfully saved the three astronauts onboard after a mid-flight equipment malfunction. The survival tale has inspired several ...

Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for a 30th anniversary rerelease in IMAX. Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut who died ...

Beloved astronaut Jim Lovell died at the age of 97. Famed Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97, NASA confirmed on Friday. Lovell’s cause of death was not revealed, but NASA ...

The commander of Apollo 13, Jim Lovell, has died at the age of 97. Jim, who uttered the phrase "Houston, we have a problem," died on Thursday August 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois, according to his family ...

Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, died Thursday at the age of 97, NASA announced on Friday. Lovell, who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering as ...

The actor portrayed the leader of the mission to the moon in the 1995 film. By Lexi Carson Associate Editor “There are people who dare, who dream and who lead others to the places we would not go on ...

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 ...

Director Ron Howard's "Apollo 13," the cinematic account of the ill-fated lunar flight in 1970, blew out the candles on its big 30th birthday on June 30, 2025. But in case you missed the celebration, ...

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.