Ron Howard is the director of the 1995 American space drama film Apollo 13. The screenplay, written by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert, is an adaptation of astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger’s ...

Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's Oscar-winning dramatization of NASA's ill-fated mission to send astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) to the Moon ...

A large, gold propeller sits outside of Meding's Seafood near Milford, Delaware. The propeller once belonged to the USS Shangri-La, an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1944. Astronauts Jim Lovell and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were determined to reach ...

View post: Country Music Star, 40, Takes a Step Back From Music for Major Career Move Famed Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97, NASA confirmed on Friday. Lovell’s cause of death ...

One of the most iconic vehicles of the early space age was the lunar module, the Grumman (today’s Northrop Grumman) spacecraft that safely put six crews on the moon between 1969 and 1972. On Apollo 13 ...

Kristen and Ashleigh watched Apollo 13 a while ago and we just finished the edit for this reaction last night. Around the same time, we learned that astronaut Jim Lovell had passed away at the age of ...

Commander and Astronaut James A. Lovell, Jr. – died Thursday at the age of 97. He was one of the three-man Apollo 13 spacecraft crew that set for the moon in April 1970. In 1970, the Apollo 13 ...

CHICAGO — 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, ...