Lovell turned a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, inspiring the movie "Apollo 13," where ...

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

"Apollo 13" heads to theaters for film's 30th anniversary, tells the Jim Lovell-led story of a near-disastrous NASA mission.

Lovell famously delivered the news to mission control, saying “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” The exchange was later ...

Jim Lovell, the NASA astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission around the moon and back, has died, NASA announced ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, one of the first men to orbit the moon and later commander of the infamously ill-fated Apollo 13 ...

Tom Hanks has shared a tribute to James A. Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in the 1995 feature “Apollo 13.” Lovell died ...

Apollo 13' director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer pay to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon mission on which they based their movie.

Nicknamed "Smilin’ Jim” by his fellow astronauts, Jim Lovell was known for his wit and quick grin, said acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy.

Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, is best known for captaining the Apollo 13 mission safely back to earth after a devastating onboard explosion, saving his own life, his crew and perhaps America's ...

NASA confirmed that Lovell died today in Lake Forest, Illinois. He is one of NASA'S most traveled astronauts in the agency's ...