Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously ...

Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.… Lovell was selected as part of the second group of NASA astronauts in 1962, having ...

In their recent announcement, NASA has made official what pretty much anyone following the Artemis lunar program could have ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin were friends for a long time. The legendary astronauts, globally known for their respective ...

These photos are out of this world. Thousands of images from the Apollo missions have been curated and re-released in a new gallery on Flickr. The images hail directly from NASA but have been ...

The Artemis 1 Orion crew vehicle has set a new record for a NASA flight. At approximately 8:40AM ET on Saturday, Orion flew farther than any spacecraft designed to carry human astronauts had ever ...

NASA's last Apollo command module to launch into space has shed its skin to provide a better look at the capsule, which was the first United States spacecraft to fly a joint mission with ...

Apollo astronauts reached speeds exceeding 24,000 miles per hour on their way to the Moon, driven by a rocket that remains the most powerful ever flown. The Saturn V, standing 363 feet tall and ...