The astronauts' perilous journey back to Earth was recounted in "Apollo 13," a star-studded film released in 1995 starring Tom Hanks. To mark the Oscar-winning film's 30th anniversary, Universal ...
Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for re-release. NASA announced Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut, died Thursday, Aug.
More than 55 years ago, three Apollo 13 astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon plans to reach the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered troubles. The astronauts' perilous journey ...
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They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The death of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided ...
Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died. He was 97. Lovell died on August 7 in Lake Forest, ...
WASHINGTON: American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival, has died at the age of ...
A new feature being filmed in Sudbury, Ont., is revisiting the historical moment NASA astronauts came north to train for their Apollo 16 mission in 1971. Dreams of the Moon, directed by Sudbury-born ...
NASA's Apollo programme represents one of humanity's most audacious and successful ventures. Born from President John F. Kennedy's challenge to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth, ...