On April 14, 1970, a massive explosion rocked Apollo 13. An oxygen tank blew up inside the lunar service module, just two ...

He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom ...

Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, is best known for captaining the Apollo 13 mission safely back to earth after a ...

The SpaceX CRS-32 Dragon cargo capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Credit: Space.com | footage ...

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just six remain.

The astronaut helped turn the failed moon landing into triumph by getting back to Earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion ...

Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 13, during which he and his crewmates famously averted disaster.

The Nasa astronaut turned around a moon mission that nearly ended in disaster but instead inspired a Hollywood blockbuster.

The space explorer was determined throughout his life, says Teasel Muir-Harmony, the curator of the Apollo Collection at the ...

Known as Smilin’ Jim, Lovell was a veteran of the Apollo 8 lunar voyage and mission commander for the Apollo 13 flight.

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

On this day in 1971, NASA’s Apollo 15 mission concluded with a dramatic splashdown 335 miles north of Honolulu after a ...