US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a ...

Taking boxing classes and shooting hoops with friends are the best forms of medicine for Bill McCleery, who was diagnosed ...

The astronaut was portrayed by Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's 1995 movie about the expedition, in which Hanks famously said, ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell's "life and work inspired millions of people across the decades," NASA said, praising his "character and ...

It was with great sadness that I learned on Aug. 8 that Jim Lovell, a hero of American spaceflight, had died at the age of 97. Lovell was best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, the ...

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just six remain.

Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died in Illinois, his family announced. Lovell, 97, ...