Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing ...

Five years before Tom Hanks got stuck on an island in Cast Away (2000), he was stuck in space in Ron Howard's film Apollo 13, ...

Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

Astronaut Jim Lovell circled the moon on Apollo 8 and helped bring Apollo 13 home safely despite a mishap far from Earth.

In April 1970, Apollo 13 was headed to the moon when disaster struck. A critical failure crippled the spacecraft’s systems.

The 1995 movie ‘Apollo 13’ told the story behind the failed NASA mission. Get to know the space explorers who Tom Hanks, Bill ...

Lovell famously delivered the news to mission control, saying “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” The exchange was later ...

The Oscar-winning actor played the real-life commander of the 1970 space mission that nearly ended in tragedy.

EXCLUSIVE: Apollo 13 mission commander astronaut Jim Lovell, memorialized through Tom Hanks’ performance in the Best ...

One of NASA’s most traveled astronauts in the agency’s first decade, he flew four times — Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 — with the two Apollo flights riveting the folks back on ...

Apollo 13 mission safely back to earth after a devastating onboard explosion, saving his own life, his crew and ...