James Lovell was a legendary astronaut who was part of multiple famous missions, including one disastrous one. He was a ...

James Lovell Jr. was a former NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission. Read about his family, death, and more.

Sixty years ago, a fleet of sleek little spaceships paved the way for America to land a man on the Moon. Project Gemini was a series of two-man, Earth-orbital missions that pioneered rendezvous ...

On March 16, 1966, NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott performed the first space docking on the Gemini 8 mission. See photos from that historic spaceflight here.

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

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

It flew on the Gemini 8 mission, on March 16, 1966, piloted by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott. Gemini Guidance Computers were stored-program, digital, real-time, solid state computers, which ...

Space veteran and heroic Apollo 13 commander, Jim Lovell, has died at the age of 97. Space veteran and heroic Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. Jim passed away on August 7, in ...