Remembering Apollo 13’s Jim Lovell, the Most Down-to-Earth Astronaut

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.
The Montana Standard

Apollo 13 astronauts and flight controllers reflect on a 'successful failure'

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...

Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell remembered as decorated NASA astronaut

"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 decorated astronauts and the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 ...
Yahoo

'Apollo 13' at 30: the space movie where scientists have the right stuff too

No spoiler warnings were required. When moviegoers first sat down to watch "Apollo 13" in the summer of 1995, they already knew how the story would play out. Those old enough could remember how, in ...
ksn.com

Cosmosphere remembers Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) — The Cosmosphere is paying tribute to Captain Jim Lovell, the Apollo 13 commander whose steady leadership during a near-disaster made him an American hero. Lovell died ...
The Spokesman-Review

The Apollo 13: A Near Tragedy

NASA’s third moon landing mission blasts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Severe oscillations — astronauts called it “pogo” — cause the center engine of the Saturn V second stage to shut down ...
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Ken Mattingly, astronaut who helped Apollo 13 crew return safely home, dies at age 87

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced.