James Lovell, the legendary NASA astronaut and heroic commander of Apollo 13 who masterfully guided his crew through one of the most dangerous moments in space exploration history, has died, NASA ...

Astronaut James Lovell Jr., known for serving as commander of the Apollo 13 mission, died Thursday, Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Ill. He was 97. On Friday, Aug. 8, his family confirmed his death in a ...

Trailblazing Apollo 13 commander James Lovell, whose “calm” heroics helped prevent a failed moon mission from turning into an unthinkable tragedy, has died. He was 97. Lovell died in Lake Forest, ...

CUSTOM ALERTS FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. HE’S A REAL LIFE HERO BEHIND ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST ICONIC STORIES. ASTRONAUT JAMES LOVELL HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 97. HE SERVED AS COMMANDER OF THE INFAMOUS ...

James Lovell, who grew up in Milwaukee and became one of the most famous astronauts when he commanded the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Aug. 7. He was 97. Lovell was among the first ...

The astronaut was portrayed by Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's 1995 movie about the expedition, in which Hanks famously said, "Houston, we have a problem." By The Associated Press James Lovell, the ...

“God speed you, on this next voyage,” said Hanks of the NASA commander he played back in 1995 getty; Universal/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Hanks posted a tribute on social media to James Lovell, ...

James Lovell, the pioneering U.S. astronaut whose two dramatic missions to the moon included Apollo 13, the nearly disastrous trip that captivated the world and decades later inspired a triumphant ...

Labor Day weekend 2003 kicked off with a ceremony honoring the astronaut. DeGeeter remembers Lovell and his wife arriving at the John Muir Elementary School in a bright-red 1964 Ford Galaxie ...

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, ...