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 ...

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, ...

Lovell's "life and work inspired millions of people across the decades," said NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a statement.