Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97 Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.… Lovell was selected as part of the second group of NASA astronauts in 1962,

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who died at the age of 97 on Thursday, played a role in the making of the hit movie Apollo 13 that chronicled the mission where Lovell served as commander. The 1970 mission was considered a "successful failure" after the spacecraft experienced an oxygen tank

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.