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CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

"Houston, we have a problem." But the problem that drives the action in Apollo 13 was a real life-or-death turn of events for the three astronauts onboard. And the inherent suspense in how their ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

One of just 24 people to have flown to the moon, famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell was the first person to fly there twice, but never landed on its rocky surface. Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, is ...

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 ...