What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 commander poses for a portrait in his space suit, Feb. 16 ...
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 ...