The Apollo 13 space mission in April 1970 riveted the public as NASA successfully saved the three astronauts onboard after a mid-flight equipment malfunction. The survival tale has inspired several ...

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 ...

The astronaut was portrayed by Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's 1995 movie about the expedition, in which Hanks famously said, "Houston, we have a problem." By The Associated Press James Lovell, the ...

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 whom 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 ...

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: "We are enormously ...

The opening scene of Apollo 13, the film based on astronaut James Lovell’s harrowing space ordeal, doesn’t start with his transmission to mission control: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Instead, we ...