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

In April 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was supposed to be another routine journey to the Moon. Instead, it became one of the ...

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...

Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most decorated astronauts and the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13. Lovell rephrased a ...

No spoiler warnings were required. When moviegoers first sat down to watch "Apollo 13" in the summer of 1995, they already knew how the story would play out. Those old enough could remember how, in ...

The Apollo 13 mission was supposed to send astronauts to the moon but when an oxygen tank exploded during their trip to the moon, the mission changed drastically, and was considered a “successful ...

NASA’s third moon landing mission blasts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Severe oscillations — astronauts called it “pogo” — cause the center engine of the Saturn V second stage to shut down ...