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

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

The mission nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and endurance and led to the hit Hollywood ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission, which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a ...

Captain James "Jim" Lovell, Jr., the celebrated naval aviator and astronaut who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission, ...

Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has ...

Hanks, 69, starred as Lovell in 1995's hit film Apollo 13, and he has continued to be a NASA defender and an advocate for ...

Lovell commanded the Apollo 13 mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and ...

LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS: James “Jim” Lovell, the celebrated Apollo 13 commander whose quick thinking turned a near-disaster ...

American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed yet inspirational 1970 "Apollo 13" mission to the moon, died at the ...

A legendary astronaut who commanded the almost doomed Apollo 13 lunar mission has passed away at the age of 97. Jim Lovell ...

Before he led Apollo 13 from tragedy to triumph, Lovell was part of a NASA mission that returned home with an iconic ...