Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dies at 97
Saturday, 9 August 2025 () Washington DC (UPI) Aug 8, 2025
Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois, his family announced. He was 97. Lovell also flew on three other missions: Gemini 7, Gemini 12 and Apollo 8 in the 1960s, and was the first astronaut to go into space that many times. He died in Lake Forest, a northern Chicago suburb. "We are saddened to announce the passing of
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