The Artemis II mission represents the first time astronauts have launched beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.

Tom Hanks reacted right after Artemis II launched into space. The actor, long linked with Apollo 13, shared his support for the astronauts heading toward the Moon. Tom Hanks shares post about Artemis

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.

Did you know Seattle’s Museum of Flight features an entire exhibit dedicated to Project Apollo? Some of those missions paved the way for the Artemis II mission launch that is set for today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, Lovell wrote a book about the near-disaster that inspired ...

Editor’s note: Each month, Dispatch reporters will profile astronauts from Ohio, culminating in a larger story toward the end of the year about all Ohioans who became astronauts. "Houston, we’ve had a problem." Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt.

CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday. “Jim’s ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, poses for a portrait in his space suit on Feb. 16, 1970. CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly ...