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

However, shortly after the broadcast ended, an uneventful flight turned into a drama worthy of Homer. An explosion caused the loss of power, oxygen and water in the command module. The astronauts ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

If you’ve watched a Saturn V launch, you’ve probably seen how a large rocket will often jettison a stage on the way up. There are several reasons for this — there is no reason to haul an empty fuel ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...