The capsule separated from the ISS on Friday before beginning its fiery reentry, heating up to about 1,925 degrees Celsius.

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do ...

A base on the moon would be more democratic than those that Musk and his acolytes have advocated building on Mars. Given ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 mission, has left an indelible mark on human spaceflight history. Lovell's leadership and ingenuity played ...

As if hard vacuum, intense cosmic radiation, corrosive dust, meteors, and temperatures whiplashing hundreds of degrees ...

The naval aviator turned astronaut led the mission, guiding it safely back to Earth after it went perilously wrong.

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

Captain James "Jim" Lovell, Jr., the celebrated naval aviator and astronaut who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission, ...

RUSSELL LEWIS, BYLINE: Jim Lovell's astronaut career was peppered with firsts. His first flight, Gemini 7, in 1965 set a space endurance record of almost 14 days. After Lovell commanded Gemini 12, ...