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Aboard Apollo 13, James Lovell was supposed to be the fifth person to walk on the moon. It was not to be.

The Apollo 13 mission began April 11, 1970 and ended up becoming one of the most famous NASA missions in history. Astronauts James "Jim" Lovell, John "Jack" Swigert and Fred Haise began the ...

James Lovell, the US astronaut who led the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission that turned into a celebrated story of survival, passed away at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday.

The late James Lovell was commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. In 1995, he recounted the story of the real-life space drama. In this 1995 segment from the Science Friday archives, Apollo 13 ...

Bettmann/Getty Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise pose for a photo. Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event.

This sculpture at the Adler Planetarium shows a moment during the Apollo 13 mission when astronaut James Lovell looked back at the earth from the capsule in space. In the Adler’s virtual exhibit ...

"Apollo 13," which is heading back to IMAX theaters for the film's 30th anniversary, tells the Jim Lovell-led story of a near-disastrous NASA mission.

Jim Clash: Describe your view of the back of the moon, the first-ever by humans live, aboard Apollo 8. Jim Lovell: Well, that was quite a thrill, the high point of my space career. We got up there ...

Retired Capt. James Lovell said he woke up Friday morning, on the 50th anniversary of the return of the ill-fated Apollo 13 to Earth, thinking about the challenges the world is facing today with ...

So the next time you catch “Apollo 13” on cable, look for Jim Lovell shaking hands with Tom Hanks in slow motion just before the credits roll in what turned out to be a very brief cameo.

Back home in Texas, Jim Lovell is a “reasonably” happy man. It has been almost four weeks since the release of “Apollo 13,” a cinematic re-enactment of the heroics of Mr. Lo… ...