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• Associated Press
Veteran NASA Astronaut Jim Lovell, Commander of Apollo 8 and 13, Dies at 97
James ‘Jim’ Lovell, the former NASA astronaut who commanded the first crewed flight to orbit the Moon on Apollo 8 and led the crisis-averted Apollo 13 mission, died on Thursday at age 97. With his passing, just six of the original Apollo lunar veterans remain alive.
