Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most decorated astronauts and the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13. Lovell rephrased a ...

Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., attends the 45th Anniversary of Apollo 8 ‘Christmas Eve Broadcast to Earth’ event at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on Dec. 23, 2013. AP File Photo Apollo 13 ...

CHICAGO - Apollo 13 commander James Lovell, who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly engineering, has died. He was 97 years old. Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has died at ...

“We lost four thrusters, which has affected our ability to fully control the spacecraft…we were able to finally get docked to the space station, due to heroic efforts by the ground team,” Vet.

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 astronaut, whose hopes of landing on the moon went up in the air with an oxygen tank explosion, sits in a plane near the Manned Space Center at Houston, Texas, Feb. 3, 1971. (AP ...

Captain James A. Lovell Jr., an astronaut best known for Apollo 8, the first mission to orbit the moon, and Apollo 13, an engineering feat that beat the odds, died on August 7, 2025, in Lake Forest, ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. It is proper that the moon was full Saturday, the day the headlines recorded the ...

In April 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was supposed to be another routine journey to the Moon. Instead, it became one of the most dramatic survival stories in the history of space exploration. Two days ...

The Artemis 1 Orion crew vehicle has set a new record for a NASA flight. At approximately 8:40AM ET on Saturday, Orion flew farther than any spacecraft designed to carry human astronauts had ever ...

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 ...