Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who died at the age of 97 on Thursday, played a role in the making of the hit movie Apollo 13 ...

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 ...

NASA astronaut and Apollo 13 commander Capt. Jim Lovell passed away Thursday in Forest Lake, Illinois. He was 97. The cause of death has not yet been released. Bob Sirott was honored have had the ...

A veteran of the early days of the U.S. space program has died. Astronaut Jim Lovell flew in space four times. Of course, he's best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo mission that almost ...

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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, ...