Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97
Lovell (via AP)
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.
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