Washington DC (UPI) Aug 8, 2025 Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois, his family announced. He was 97. Lovell also flew on three other missions: Gemini 7, Gemini 12 and Apollo 8 in the 1960s, and was the first astronaut to go into space that many times. He died in Lake Forest, a northern Chicago suburb. "We are saddened to announce the passing of
