chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970. ­After an onboard explosion left their Moon-bound craft leaking oxygen ...

Jim Lovell, a Navy man, responded "You're very garbled, Houston. I am unable to read and will call you back next year." Both Lovell and Collins knew only too well that Apollo 8's commander ...

As Apollo 8 neared its target ... the flight the hair kind of came up on the back of my neck a little bit." Jim Lovell remembered that after they fired their engine, "On the computer then it ...

November 11-15, 1966 - Serves as the commander of Gemini 12, with pilot Buzz Aldrin. December 21-27, 1968 - Along with crewmen Borman and William Anders, Lovell serves as command module pilot of ...

This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit.

As the SpaceX Crew-10 spacecraft prepares for its launch from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, commanded by Spokane's Col. Anne McClain on her second mission to the International Space Station, ...

October 2010 – The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center is established in Chicago. November 2011 – An Apollo 13 checklist that Lovell used for calculations sells at auction for ...