Director Ron Howard's "Apollo 13," the cinematic account of the ill-fated lunar flight in 1970, blew out the candles on its big 30th birthday on June 30, 2025. But in case you missed the celebration, ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Apollo 13 mission commander astronaut Jim Lovell, memorialized through Tom Hanks’ performance in the Best Picture-nominated Ron Howard film, will have another screen moment. Days after the ...

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, Ill ...

It is proper that the moon was full Saturday, the day the headlines recorded the passing of Jim Lovell. It offered the opportunity for us to see the full face of the place where he never got the ...

The opening scene of Apollo 13, the film based on astronaut James Lovell’s harrowing space ordeal, doesn’t start with his transmission to mission control: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Instead, we ...

The Right Stuff gang has lost yet another member. Jim Lovell of the Apollo 8 and 13 missions just died at age 97. This writer recalls his past conversations with the great man. ByJim Clash, ...

Tom Hanks is remembering late astronaut Jim Lovell, whom he portrayed in the Oscar-winning film “Apollo 13,” as among the rare humans “who lead others to the places we would not go on our own.” Hanks’ ...

James Arthur Lovell Jr., the test pilot turned astronaut who helped prevent the Apollo 13 mission from ending in disaster, died on Thursday at the age of 97. NASA confirmed Lovell’s death on Friday, ...

Captain James "Jim" Lovell, Jr., celebrated naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, has passed away at the age of 97. Lovell was a highly experienced astronaut, part of NASA's "New Nine" and ...

Apollo 13 mission commander and astronaut Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. “We are saddened to announce the passing of our beloved father, USN Captain James A. ‘Jim’ Lovell, a Navy pilot and ...