Sally Ride made history in 1983 as the first American woman to fly in space — and now her story is headed to your TV screen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for re-release. NASA announced Lovell, ...

Through tragedy there is triumph, and a film telling the story of NASA’s race to the moon and its first loss, "Apollo 1," illustrated this journey during NASA’s annual Day of Remembrance at Kennedy ...

Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for a 30th anniversary rerelease in IMAX. Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut who died ...

CHICAGO (AP) — 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, ...