“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 ...

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Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission, has died, NASA announced Friday. He was 97. Apollo 13, a 1970 flight to the moon, became known as a "successful failure" after the ...

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 ...

Tom Hanks is remembering late astronaut Jim Lovell, whom he portrayed in the Oscar-winning film “Apollo 13,” as among the rare humans “who lead others to the places we would not go on our own.” Hanks’ ...

Tom Hanks is paying tribute to Jim Lovell, the legendary astronaut he portrayed in the film "Apollo 13." In an emotional tribute posted to Instagram, Hanks remembered Lovell as a true visionary.

NASA announced on Friday that Apollo 13 commander and astronaut Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. In a statement, his family wrote, “We will miss his unshakeable optimism, his sense of humor, and ...

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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, Illinois, NASA ...