“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Those words, from astronaut James Lovell to NASA, gripped the world for four days in 1970 as astronauts on Apollo 13 worked furiously to get back to earth after an ...

Jim Lovell, the iconic US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has passed away at the age of 97, as announced by NASA on August 8. Lovell's journey through the cosmos and his remarkable ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The flight plans had been filed, the logistics confirmed and the countdown was on to celebrate ...

“Houston, we have a problem.” — and director Ron Howard had a few of them himself shooting his riveting, reality-based 1995 classic, Apollo 13 … beginning with that famous misquote. But other ...