In April 1970, Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third mission to the moon - but an onboard explosion turned it into a desperate race to bring three astronauts home alive. This video tells the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, ...

James Lovell, Apollo 13 Hero Played by Tom Hanks in the Movie, Dies at 97 originally appeared on Parade. James Lovell, the NASA astronaut who steered the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission from the brink of ...

Apollo 13 was meant to land on the Moon, but an explosion turned it into a desperate fight for survival. This is the story of how ingenuity, teamwork, and determination brought three astronauts safely ...

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously ...

Jim Lovell is most famous as the man to utter the words, "Houston, we've had a problem," the start of the now legendary Apollo 13 disaster. He died Friday at the age of 97, but for years he called ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” were the words of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell when an explosion crippled the spacecraft and threatened the lives of the crew ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 and a Navy veteran, has died. Here, Lovell speaks during a televised news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, on April 21, 1970.

Astronaut Jim Lovell reads the news after his crew returned safely to Earth from a failed Moon mission in 1970 - Copyright NASA/AFP/File Handout Astronaut Jim Lovell ...

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 ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. The former ...