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

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.

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 ...

Apollo 13 director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer paid tribute today to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon ...

Following the recent passing of the Cleveland-born astronaut he played in the movie “Apollo 13,” actor Tom Hanks took to ...

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 ...

Lovell was credited as a writer on the film and made a cameo at the end of it, but he did not serve as the technical advisor, ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, whose history-making leadership of a near-disastrous 1970 moon mission was chronicled in the hit film ...