1928- American astronaut who was the first individual to complete four space missions. Lovell graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Test Pilot School. He piloted Gemini 7 for two weeks in 1965 and then commanded Gemini 12. On Apollo 8 in...

James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut, most famous as the commander of Apollo 13, which suffered an explosion enroute to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission...

IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOONRunning time 100 minutesDirected by David Sington Starring Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young and others David Sington’s In the Shadow of the Moon moved me to the extremes of nostalgia, regret and outright admiration as no other movie has...

To the son of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, the launch of the first man-made satellite 50 years ago was the first point in the score of a game in which his father's country triumphed."The Soviets won 3 to 1," Sergei Khrushchev told The Associated...

When astronauts return from space, what they talk about isn't the brute force of the rocket launch or the exhilaration of zero gravity _ it's the view. And it's mankind's rarest view of all, Earth from afar.Only two dozen men _ those who journeyed to...