Apollo missions nearly failed more than once The Apollo program was far more dangerous and experimental than its polished legacy suggests. Engineers were racing against time, political pressure, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Apollo 13 commander James Lovell, who helped turn failed moon mission into triumph of on-the-fly engineering, has died.

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, Illinois, NASA ...