James Lovell was the commander of the Apollo 13 mission. The dramatic story of those astronauts returning to earth after major mechanical problems in space was made into a hit movie starring Tom Hanks ...

In this captivating clip from Apollo 13, join Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) for an exhilarating launch to the moon! Buy/Rent Apollo 13! Amazon: <a ...

Houston ... we have an IMAX release. More than 55 years ago, three NASA astronauts had to abort their mission to the moon after a life-threatening malfunction aboard ...

Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for a 30th anniversary rerelease in IMAX. Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut who died ...

Tom Hanks paid tribute to Jim Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in Apollo 13, following news of Lovell’s death Friday at the age of 97. “There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to ...

Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, died Thursday at the age of 97, NASA announced on Friday. Lovell, who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering as ...

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 ...

Posted: February 8, 2026 | Last updated: February 13, 2026 Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) and his crew brace for re-entry after days of near disaster, with every second of radio silence stretching out the ...