Tom Hanks is sharing a touching sendoff for Jim Lovell, the Apollo 13 commander Hanks portrayed in the Oscar-winning film of the same name 30 years ago. Hours after news of Lovell's death at 97 on Aug ...

I’m forever grateful for my dad taking me to see Apollo 13 all those years ago. In case you were wondering, I did eventually ...

Tom Hanks is paying tribute to Jim Lovell, who died Thursday at age 97. Hanks, who famously played Lovell in Apollo 13, described him in an Instagram post as the kind of person who “lead[s] others to ...

As the lights dimmed at Showbiz Cinemas here on a recent evening, Fred Haise, the last surviving member of the Apollo 13 crew ...

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, ...

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 ...

One of just 24 people to have flown to the moon, famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell was the first person to fly there twice, but never landed on its rocky surface. Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, is ...