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 ...

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.

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who guided the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth in 1970, has died aged 97. Nasa said he "turned a potential tragedy into a success" after an attempt to land on the Moon was ...

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, ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — 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, ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- 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, Ill ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — 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, Ill ...