Santa's elves start early in Germany. Three postal workers set off Saturday on their nearly 3,000-kilometer (1,860-mile) ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a ...

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(CNN) — Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died. He was 97. Lovell died on August 7 in Lake ...

Lovell famously delivered the news to mission control, saying "Houston, we've had a problem." The exchange was later immortalized by Hanks in the "Apollo 13" movie, which costarred Gary Sinise, Kevin ...

Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 mission, has left an indelible mark on human spaceflight history. Lovell's leadership and ingenuity played ...

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks honored James Lovell, the American astronaut he portrayed in “ Apollo 13 ,” with a heartfelt ...

Apollo 13 star Tom Hanks pays tribute to Jim Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in the Oscar-winning 1995 film about an ...

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

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

Actor Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard are among those paying tribute to heroic astronaut James Lovell following his death ...