Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) and his crew ditch their shattered service module in a high-stakes, adrenaline-pumping maneuver to ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

Despite facing a harrowing crisis, the Apollo 13 mission still managed to execute a scientific experiment. They intentionally ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Apollo 13 space mission in April 1970 riveted the public as NASA successfully saved the three astronauts onboard after a ...

Apollo 13 commander and Ohio native Jim Lovell's successful failure captivated the world.

Part of a SpaceX rocket approximately the size of a bus slammed into the Moon as predicted, scientists said Wednesday, after a telescope in Chile captured evidence of a stream of debris.Scientists ...

This story originally posted Sept. 17, 2016. It is being republished as part of the Chronicle's 125 series. By the time Apollo 13 launched in April 1970, Americans already had walked on the moon twice ...

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Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for a 30th anniversary rerelease in IMAX. Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut who died ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Houston, we've had a problem." Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most ...

Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., attends the 45th Anniversary of Apollo 8 ‘Christmas Eve Broadcast to Earth’ event at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on Dec. 23, 2013. AP File Photo Apollo 13 ...