Apollo 13' director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer pay to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon mission on which they based their movie.

The 'Apollo 13' director celebrated the real-life astronaut's 'intellect, courage and commitment to duty' after his death.

Veteran actor Tom Hanks honored the late Apollo 13 astronaut James Lovell in a heartfelt social media post. Lovell's daughter-in-law confirmed the news that he died on Thursday to The New York Times.

Apollo 13 (1995) was directed by Ron Howard and it is a dramatized account of the Apollo 13 lunar mission in the 1970s. William Broyles Jr.

T he US commander of the infamous "Apollo 13" mission, Jim Lovell, has passed away at the age of 97. A world star with a very ...

LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS: James “Jim” Lovell, the celebrated Apollo 13 commander whose quick thinking turned a near-disaster ...

Tom Hanks has shared a tribute to James A. Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in the 1995 feature “Apollo 13.” Lovell died ...

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

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

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

Tom Hanks posted a tribute on social media to James Lovell, who died on Aug. 7. Lovell was a NASA astronaut known for ...

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