Jim Lovell, an astronaut known for guiding the Apollo 13 mission back to Earth safely in 1970, has passed away at the age of 97.
The mission to land on the Moon was aborted due to an explosion on board the spacecraft while it was hundreds of thousands of miles away from Earth.
Lovell famously informed Mission Control, “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” at the time, which was an understatement considering the gravity of the situation.
Tens of millions of people witnessed Lovell and his fellow astronauts safely splash down into the Pacific Ocean on television, a moment that has become one of the most iconic in space travel history.
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