American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an ...

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

The 97-year-old American icon, known for delivering the infamous “Houston, we’ve had a problem” line during the ill-fated ...

In all, Lovell flew four space missions — and until the Skylab flights of the mid-1970s, he held the world record for the ...

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

Known as Smilin’ Jim, Lovell was a veteran of the Apollo 8 lunar voyage and mission commander for the Apollo 13 flight.