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The National Museum of the American Sailor Foundation (NMASF) has announced that Captain James A. Lovell, U.S. Navy (retired), who commanded the Apollo 13 manned moon mission, has joined the ...

On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were determined to reach the moon as their craft took off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.

Though it's fair to say Apollo 13 was snakebit and unlucky, in reality, Lovell, Haise and Swigert were incredibly fortunate. The oxygen tank exploded when the space ship was 200,000 miles away ...

This sculpture at the Adler Planetarium shows a moment during the Apollo 13 mission when astronaut James Lovell looked back at the earth from the capsule in space. In the Adler’s virtual exhibit ...

The Apollo 13 mission began April 11, 1970 and ended up becoming one of the most famous NASA missions in history. Astronauts James "Jim" Lovell, John "Jack" Swigert and Fred Haise began the ...

Retired Capt. James Lovell said he woke up Friday morning, on the 50th anniversary of the return of the ill-fated Apollo 13 to Earth, thinking about the challenges the world is facing today with ...

Jim Clash: Describe your view of the back of the moon, the first-ever by humans live, aboard Apollo 8. Jim Lovell: Well, that was quite a thrill, the high point of my space career. We got up there ...

So the next time you catch “Apollo 13” on cable, look for Jim Lovell shaking hands with Tom Hanks in slow motion just before the credits roll in what turned out to be a very brief cameo.

Captain James Lovell, a former NASA astronaut best known as the commander of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 mission, is putting his Texas lake house on the market for $3.5 million.

James Lovell Jr. got a job running a tugboat company after piloting the stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to earth 40 years ago. But he is getting his due now.