During the glory days of the space race, Jim Hannigan belonged to a breed of men and women who lived by a noble creed: Work hard for the greater good of the nation and do it without fanfare. From 1962 ...

The genre of movies based on the real missions of NASA is actually a fairly succinct conversation when almost no other titles achieved the same acclaim as Apollo 13. The three-decade-old Oscar winner ...

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died. He was 97. Lovell died on August 7 in Lake Forest, ...

CHICAGO - Apollo 13 commander James Lovell, who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly engineering, has died. He was 97 years old. Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has died at ...

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: "We are enormously ...

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