FILE - Apollo 13 commander James A. Lovell speaks during a televised news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, April 21, 1970, pointing to the spot on the service module ...

Netflix has begun the countdown to a "re-launch" of one of NASA's most well-known missions in spaceflight history. The ...

FILE - Apollo 13 commander James A. Lovell speaks during a televised news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, April 21, 1970, pointing to the spot on the service module ...

Jim Lovell, the commander of the famed Apollo 13 mission, has died, according to NASA. He was 97.

The naval aviator turned astronaut led the mission, guiding it safely back to Earth after it went perilously wrong.

SPACE veteran and heroic Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. Jim passed away on August 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois with NASA leading tributes for the “unforgettable ...

Tuesday, April 14: 12:43 A.M Apollo 13 needs to return to its previous free-return trajectory. However, NASA engineers fear the explosion may have damaged the engine on the service module. They ...

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to Earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died.

But Apollo 13's service module, carrying Lovell and two others, experienced a sudden oxygen tank explosion on its way to the moon. The astronauts barely survived, spending four cold and clammy ...