Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell, NASA Legend Dies at 97
American astronaut Jim Lovell, best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission that turned into one of space exploration’s greatest survival stories, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced on Friday. Lovell’s leadership during the 1970 mission—intended to be humankind’s third lunar landing—became the stuff of legend after a catastrophic…
