The mission’s goal was to land astronauts on the Moon’s Fra Mauro region and conduct scientific experiments, including ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...

NASA astronaut James 'Jim' Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission of 1970, passed away at the age of 97 on Friday, NASA announced. As the mission commander of Apollo 13, he famously steered ...

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 ...

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the ...

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 ...

Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell has died aged 97. He is being remembered for pulling off one of the greatest survival tales in outer space. Tom Hanks – who played Mr Lovell in the film ‘Apollo 13’ – ...