As if hard vacuum, intense cosmic radiation, corrosive dust, meteors, and temperatures whiplashing hundreds of degrees ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell of Apollo 13 fame died at 97; his leadership is celebrated for averting a lunar mission disaster, ...

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks honored James Lovell, the American astronaut he portrayed in “ Apollo 13 ,” with a heartfelt ...

(CBS, KYMA/KECY) - Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission, has died, NASA announced Friday.

The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

Firefly Aerospace, the first private company to successfully land upright on the moon, is set to make another high-stakes ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do ...

On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic sample return mission and the ...

Lovell commanded the Apollo 13 mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and ...

Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for ...

Tom Hanks is remembering late astronaut Jim Lovell, whom he portrayed in the Oscar-winning film “Apollo 13,” as among the ...

The naval aviator turned astronaut led the mission, guiding it safely back to Earth after it went perilously wrong.