When an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13, 200,000 miles from Earth, Jim Lovell’s calm voice crackled over the radio: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” It was April 1970, and the mission that was meant to land Lovell on the moon became a desperate fight for survival.

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died. He was 97.

The Cosmosphere is honored to be one of the leading museums in the world for telling the story of the “Space Race”. Remar said there’s no better place for Lovell to be memorialized. “To be able to continue to provide an opportunity for people to remember, but also ignite that spark of passion for future is something that we take a lot of pride in.