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Apollo 13 commander and NASA astronaut Jim Lovell dead at 97

James (Jim) 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 on Thursday in Lake Forest, Ill., NASA said in a statement on Friday. “Jim’s character and steadfast courage helped our nation reach …

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