Before he led Apollo 13 from tragedy to triumph, Lovell was part of a NASA mission that returned home with an iconic ...

A lunar crater, immortalized in one of the most famous photos ever taken, is playing a key role in the search for ...

In 1968, astronauts captured the first color photo of Earth rising over the Moon, viewed live by over 500 million people.

Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 13, during which he and his crewmates famously averted disaster.

In all, Lovell flew four space missions — and until the Skylab flights of the mid-1970s, he held the world record for the ...

A naval aviator turned Gemini and Apollo member, his leadership helped prevent the failed 1970 mission from turning deadly.

Astronaut Jim Lovell circled the moon on Apollo 8 and helped bring Apollo 13 home safely despite a mishap far from Earth.

The naval aviator turned astronaut led the mission, guiding it safely back to Earth after it went perilously wrong.

Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew’s oxygen and ...

He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom ...

Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has ...

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing ...