CHICAGO — 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, ...
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What Apollo astronauts faced up there was terrifying

In July 1969, humans landed on the Moon — that’s the version everyone knows. What’s less remembered is how fragile the missions really were, and how many moments unfolded with no backup and no rescue.
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 died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...
Three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s ...
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 died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...