What really happened on Apollo 13? In April 1970, three astronauts were headed to the Moon when a deadly oxygen tank explosion turned their mission into a fight for survival. With systems failing and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died. FILE - In this photo provided by NASA, ...

Houston, we have ... an IMAX release. More than 55 years ago, three astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon their dreams of reaching the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered some ...

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, ...

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died. CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of ...