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CHICAGO — James 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 Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

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CHICAGO — James 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 Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 and a Navy veteran, has died. Here, Lovell speaks during a televised news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, on April 21, 1970.