
Apollo 13 moon mission chief James Lovell dies at 97
James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped flip a failed moon mission right into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died pn Thursday (August 7, 2025) in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA stated in an announcement on Friday. “Jim’s character and steadfast braveness helped our nation attain the…