What began as a routine Moon mission turned into a life-or-death struggle. Apollo 13’s near-disaster became the most ...

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 where ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story stated the explosion happened at 55 hours, 46 minutes into the mission. It happened at 55 hours, 55 minutes. April 13, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of the ...

Commander and Astronaut James A. Lovell, Jr. – died Thursday at the age of 97. He was one of the three-man Apollo 13 spacecraft crew that set for the moon in April 1970. In 1970, the Apollo 13 ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third Moon landing. Then an oxygen tank exploded, power began collapsing, and the mission became a countdown to survival. Most people remember the famous line, the ...

CLEVELAND — Apollo 13 launched on April 11th, 1970 with Cleveland native James Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise on board. A routine stir of an oxygen tank ignited an explosion that altered the ...

Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and electrical supply. The... Famed NASA astronaut and Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...