Astronaut Jim Lovell, whose history-making leadership as commander of a near-disastrous 1970 mission to the moon is one of the most celebrated tales of the U.S. space program and was chronicled in the hit Tom Hanks film 'Apollo 13', passed away in Illinois on Thursday. He was 97.
NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the Moon and returning safely to Earth, completing the Artemis I flight test.