What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John “Jack” Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for re-release. NASA announced Lovell, ...

The mission’s goal was to land astronauts on the Moon’s Fra Mauro region and conduct scientific experiments, including ...

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...

Houston, we have an ... IMAX release. More than 55 years ago, three astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon their dreams of reaching the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered some ...

Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for a 30th anniversary rerelease in IMAX. Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut who died ...

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, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander ...