Apollo 13 commander and NASA astronaut Jim Lovell dead at 97

Apollo 13 commander and NASA astronaut Jim Lovell dead at 97

James (Jim) 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 on Thursday in Lake Forest, Ill., NASA said in a statement on Friday."Jim's

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