Despite journeys around the moon and becoming one of the nation’s most-acclaimed astronauts, he was just a regular guy.

In a Chicago History Museum image, astronauts John Swigert, left, and James Lovell, wave to a crowd that gathered downtown ...

(CNN) — 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. Lovell died on August 7 in Lake ...