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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Don Babwin

DARK SECRETS: Apollo 13 moon mission leader james lovell dies at 97 - The Real Truth

Obit James Lovell - (Copyright 1970 AP. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.

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