James Lovell, who grew up in Milwaukee and became one of the most famous astronauts when he commanded the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Aug. 7. He was 97. Lovell was among the first ...

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, ...

Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for re-release. NASA announced Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut, died Thursday, Aug.

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 ...

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 ...

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, The Associated Press reported Friday. He was 97. Gerry Griffin ...

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