Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Dies at 97 Written 11 August 2025
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Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., commander of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission, pauses for a photo while training for the Apollo 13 mission, April, 1970. | Credit: NASA
The Washington Post reports, “James A. Lovell Jr., the American astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its lunar voyage in 1970 and shepherded it on a perilous four-day journey back to Earth after an oxygen tank exploded, an ordeal that transfixed the world, died Aug. 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97.”
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