Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft launched with astronauts Jack Swigert, 38, Jim Lovell, 42, and Fred Haise, 36. Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, however, it ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, a panoramic high-definition image of astronaut Fred Haise napping in the “lifeboat” Lunar Module has been produced. The ill-fated mission ...

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 ...

On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 blasted off into the Florida skies from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center atop a massive Saturn V rocket. The mission, which was crewed by Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert ...

A trip to the moon later this decade should be safer, but it won’t be safe. The damaged service module of the Apollo 13 mission, floating away after the astronauts jettisoned it before re-entry back ...

Fifty years ago, and just seven months after Apollo 11, the third manned lunar landing attempt was already seen as routine, even boring, but in a little over two days, the Apollo 13 mission would ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — Fifty years after pulling it off, the company that made the thing that landed the first men on the moon threw a party for the people who weren't on TV. "The LEM was the most reliable ...

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The Apollo astronauts took some of the most famous photos of the 20 th century, but to Andy Saunders, they’re not quite good enough. It isn’t the content that bothers him, nor the skill of the ...

Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced. He was 87. “We lost ...