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 ...

Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.… Lovell was selected as part of the second group of NASA astronauts in 1962, having missed ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Each month, Dispatch reporters will profile astronauts from Ohio, culminating in a larger story toward the end of the year about all Ohioans who became astronauts. "Houston, we've had a ...

James Arthur Lovell Jr., the test pilot turned astronaut who helped prevent the Apollo 13 mission from ending in disaster, died on Thursday at the age of 97. NASA confirmed Lovell’s death on Friday, ...

Tributes began pouring in for famed Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell after his death at 97 years old. Lovell died on Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA announced in a news release. He is survived ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...

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 ...

Tom Hanks paid tribute to Jim Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in Apollo 13, following news of Lovell’s death Friday at the age of 97. “There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to ...