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 ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Sitting in a broad armchair in the front room of his home near Folkestone, UK, Reg Turnill recalls the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space ...

American astronaut and commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission who dramatically brought the crew back to Earth Just after 9.20pm, Houston time, on Monday 13 April 1970, Jim Lovell, who has died ...

Apollo 13 Moon Mission Leader James Lovell Dies at 97 CHICAGO (AP) — 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 ...

The Apollo 11 mission which set Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on to the surface of the Moon in July 1969 was arguably humanity's finest endeavour. But to many the Apollo 13 mission was no less heroic ...

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 ...

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, Illinois, NASA ...