James Lovell was the commander of the Apollo 13 mission. The dramatic story of those astronauts returning to earth after major mechanical problems in space was made into a hit movie starring Tom Hanks ...

Apollo 13: Survival (now on Netflix) tells a story so many of us already know, albeit in a new, vital manner. Ron Howard’s 1995 nine-times Oscar-nominated Tom Hanks vehicle Apollo 13 rather famously ...

"Apollo 13" stars Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as three NASA astronauts who must navigate safely back to Earth after their spacecraft encounters troubles on the way to the moon. To ...

Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's Oscar-winning dramatization of NASA's ill-fated mission to send astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) to the Moon ...

“God speed you, on this next voyage,” said Hanks of the NASA commander he played back in 1995 getty; Universal/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Hanks posted a tribute on social media to James Lovell, ...

Director Ron Howard's "Apollo 13," the cinematic account of the ill-fated lunar flight in 1970, blew out the candles on its big 30th birthday on June 30, 2025. But in case you missed the celebration, ...

Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, died Thursday at the age of 97, NASA announced on Friday. Lovell, who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering as ...

Tom Hanks is honoring the real-life hero that he once portrayed in a popular, Oscar-winning film. After the death of astronaut Jim Lovell was announced on Friday, Hanks shared a poignant social media ...

new video loaded: James A. Lovell Jr., Commander of Apollo 13, Dies at 97 transcript James A. Lovell Jr., the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, led the three man crew, narrowly surviving a near ...