Apollo 13 mission commander and astronaut Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. “We are saddened to announce the passing of our beloved father, USN Captain James A. ‘Jim’ Lovell, a Navy pilot and ...

The late astronaut died in Lake Forest, Ill. on Thursday, Aug. 7 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared on Variety, The ...

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 ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, Lovell wrote a book about the near-disaster that inspired the ...

James Arthur Lovell Jr., the test pilot turned astronaut who helped prevent the Apollo 13 mission from ending in disaster, died on Thursday at the age of 97. NASA confirmed Lovell’s death on Friday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) – The Cosmosphere is honoring the memory of the doomed Apollo 13 Mission Commander Jim Lovell. Official photo of Commander Jim Lovell (Courtesy NASA) Lovell served as commander ...

We have a remembrance of astronaut Jim Lovell, who died on Thursday at the age of 97. Lovell never landed on the moon, but he gave us one of the most iconic moments in American astronomy. A moment to ...

Astronaut James Lovell Jr. died in Lake Forest, Ill., on Thursday, Aug. 7 His family confirmed his death in a statement to NASA on Friday, Aug. 8 "We will miss his unshakeable optimism, his sense of ...

James A. “Jim” Lovell Jr., the NASA astronaut who famously led the Apollo 13 mission through a life-threatening crisis in space, died Aug. 7 at his home in Lake Forest, Ill. He was 97. Lovell ...

Jim Lovell, a celebrated NASA astronaut, passed away on August 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois. His death was confirmed by NASA and widely mourned across the space exploration community, film industry, and ...