Netflix’s archival documentary relives the near-fatal explosion of 1970 with remarkable and urgent footage On paper, the survival of three astronauts aboard Apollo 13, a Nasa spacecraft bound for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Lovell, the US astronaut who led the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to the Moon in 1970, died at the age of 97, NASA announced ...

Kevin Fong explores the incredible story of the flight of Apollo 13 - as told by the astronauts who flew it, and the team on the ground that saved it. NASA has never known anything like it. An ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...

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‘Apollo 13 had a near-zero chance of survival – but Mum always thought Dad would make it back’ Ahead of a new film, the children of Nasa commander Jim Lovell recall the trauma of his final mission ...

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 aged 97. Mr Lovell died on Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, ...

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...

08:23, Sat, Aug 9, 2025 Updated: 08:35, Sat, Aug 9, 2025 James Lovell, the NASA astronaut who successfully piloted the ship back to Earth in one of the most memorable episodes in the history of manned ...

Retired astronaut and the commander of the famous Apollo 13 mission, Jim Lovell, has died aged 97. Lovell was one of NASA's most-travelled astronauts in the agency's first decade and flew four times - ...

Jim Lovell, the astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died aged 97. Nasa confirmed the death of Mr Lovell in a post on X, formerly Twitter, and said: “We are saddened by the passing of ...