Tom Hanks honoured the memory of astronaut Jim Lovell, who passed away at the age of 97, with an emotional tribute.On Friday, ...

Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, is best known for captaining the Apollo 13 mission safely back to earth after a devastating onboard explosion, saving his own life, his crew and perhaps America's ...

Hanks, 69, starred as Lovell in 1995's hit film Apollo 13, and he has continued to be a NASA defender and an advocate for ...

"Apollo 13" film star Tom Hanks honored his real-life counterpart Jim Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at 97. Director Ron Howard also ...

James Lovell, a member of humanity’s first trip to the moon and commander of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has died at ...

Tom Hanks has shared a tribute to Jim Lovell, the astronaut he played in "Apollo 13." Lovell died at the age of 97.

The trio’s harrowing ordeal was chronicled in Ron Howard’s Oscar-nominated 1995 movie about the near-disaster. Lovell himself had a cameo as the captain of the USS Iwo Jima, the U.S. Navy ship that ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell's death at 97 comes two months before the Oscar-winning film inspired by his crew's story, "Apollo 13," ...

Hanks, 69, played Lovell in the 1995 movie Apollo 13. That Ron Howard -directed docudrama retold the real-life 1970 lunar mission that Lovell commanded which endured critical failures before returning ...

"Apollo 13" heads to theaters for film's 30th anniversary, tells the Jim Lovell-led story of a near-disastrous NASA mission.

Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died in Illinois, his family announced. Lovell, 97, ...