Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

After the glory of Apollo 11, NASA’s lunar program faced fading interest—until a catastrophic failure aboard Apollo 13 turned a routine mission into a desperate fight for survival.

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Apollo 13 mission commander astronaut Jim Lovell, memorialized through Tom Hanks’ performance in the Best Picture-nominated Ron Howard film, will have another screen moment. Days after the ...

The opening scene of Apollo 13, the film based on astronaut James Lovell’s harrowing space ordeal, doesn’t start with his transmission to mission control: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Instead, we ...

The Right Stuff gang has lost yet another member. Jim Lovell of the Apollo 8 and 13 missions just died at age 97. This writer recalls his past conversations with the great man. ByJim Clash, ...

James Arthur Lovell Jr., the test pilot turned astronaut who helped prevent the Apollo 13 mission from ending in disaster, died on Thursday at the age of 97. NASA confirmed Lovell’s death on Friday, ...

Apollo 13 mission commander and astronaut Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. “We are saddened to announce the passing of our beloved father, USN Captain James A. ‘Jim’ Lovell, a Navy pilot and ...

James A. “Jim” Lovell Jr., the NASA astronaut who famously led the Apollo 13 mission through a life-threatening crisis in space, died Aug. 7 at his home in Lake Forest, Ill. He was 97. Lovell ...

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, ...

The actor portrayed the leader of the mission to the moon in the 1995 film. By Lexi Carson Associate Editor “There are people who dare, who dream and who lead others to the places we would not go on ...

CHICAGO (AP) — 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, ...