Tom Hanks Honors Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell Following His Passing at 97: ‘God speed you, on this next voyage’ |
US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. The former Navy pilot died in a Chicago suburb on Thursday, the US space agency said in a statement. The astronaut’s “life…