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Astronauts · United StatesJames Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.See the Story
Commander of Apollo 13 mission, Jim Lovell, dies
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Astronauts · United StatesBy Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Tom Hanks is honoring the real-life hero that he once portrayed in a popular, Oscar-winning film. After the death of astronaut Jim Lovell was announced on Friday, Hanks shared a poignant social media post to his Instagram, writing, “There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to places we would not go on our own.” “Jim Lovell, who for a long while had gone farther into space and for…See the Story
Tom Hanks, Who Portrayed Jim Lovell in ‘Apollo 13,’ Pays Tribute to the Late Astronaut
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