Ron Howard Honors Real-Life 'Apollo 13' Hero After Death originally appeared on Parade. Legendary actor and director Ron Howard, 71, paid a heartfelt tribute to the real-life hero behind his ...

The Apollo 13 space mission in April 1970 riveted the public as NASA successfully saved the three astronauts onboard after a mid-flight equipment malfunction. The survival tale has inspired several ...

CUSTOM ALERTS FOR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. HE’S A REAL LIFE HERO BEHIND ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST ICONIC STORIES. ASTRONAUT JAMES LOVELL HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 97. HE SERVED AS COMMANDER OF THE INFAMOUS ...

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in "Apollo 13" (Credit: Universal Pictures) Tom Hanks paid touching tribute to “Apollo 13” astronaut Jim Lovell on Friday as news of the 97-year-old’s death circulated online.

Few genres stretch across such a wide spectrum as sci-fi. From the adventures of Star Wars to the horror of Alien, the silence and unknown of space have been the perfect backdrop for decades. Even ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 and a Navy veteran, has died. Here, Lovell speaks during a televised news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, on April 21, 1970.

CHICAGO (AP) — 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, ...

CHICAGO (AP) — 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, ...

The real problem, however, is that it's completely wrong. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who uttered the famous line, died on Thursday at the age of 97. It's worth taking a minute to correct this part of ...

Ron Howard's Apollo 13 is a beloved docudrama about the real NASA mission, but movies like The Martian and Interstellar explore space even better.