Most of us are familiar with NASA's aborted moon landing mission in 1970 from watching director Ron Howard's excellent "Apollo 13" feature film that was released in 1995, and its dire declaration from ...

The Oscar-winning actor played the real-life commander of the 1970 space mission that nearly ended in tragedy.

More than 55 years ago, three Apollo 13 astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon plans to reach the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered troubles. The astronauts' perilous journey ...

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 hit movie "Apollo 13," ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, Lovell wrote a book about the near-disaster that inspired the ...

Jim Lovell: after circling the Moon 10 times in Apollo 8 he named twin peaks ‘Mount Marilyn’ after his photogenic wife - NASA Archive/Alamy Jim Lovell, the astronaut, who has died aged 97, was ...

One of just 24 people to have flown to the moon, famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell was the first person to fly there twice, but never landed on its rocky surface. Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, is ...

Lovell embarked on his NASA career long before tech billionaires or millennial pop stars were able to privately launch into space. He famously orbited the moon during the 1968 Apollo 8 mission and ...

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 ...