"Apollo 13" heads to theaters for film's 30th anniversary, tells the Jim Lovell-led story of a near-disastrous NASA mission.

Jim Lovell, the Apollo 13 astronaut known for his leadership in pioneering human space flight, has died at 97 years old ...

James Lovell grew up in Milwaukee and graduated from Juneau High School went on to be an astronaut. Lovell has died at age 97.

A legendary astronaut who commanded the almost doomed Apollo 13 lunar mission has passed away at the age of 97. Jim Lovell ...

Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, is best known for captaining the Apollo 13 mission safely back to earth after a devastating onboard explosion, saving his own life, his crew and perhaps America's ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, best known as the commander of the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois ...

NASA astronaut Jim Lovell — a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 8 and the near-disastrous Apollo 13 —passed away ...

Jim Lovell, the astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died aged 97. Nasa confirmed the death of Mr Lovell in ...

Jim Lovell, the naval aviator and mechanical engineer who is most famous for commanding the space mission Apollo 13 safely back to Earth after mechanical issues led to an aborted moon landing in 1970, ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, whose history-making leadership as commander of a near-disastrous 1970 mission to the moon is one of ...

Lovell's "life and work inspired millions of people across the decades," said NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a statement.

Their harrowing experience was immortalized in the hit 1995 movie Apollo 13, which starred Tom Hanks as Lovell and Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as Haise and Swigert, respectively. The film went on to ...