When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. And you've all watched Kevin Bacon portraying command module pilot Jack Swigert in the movie as ...

"Houston, we have a problem." But the problem that drives the action in Apollo 13 was a real life-or-death turn of events for the three astronauts onboard. And the inherent suspense in how their ...

"Apollo 13" stars Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as three NASA astronauts who must navigate safely back to Earth after their spacecraft encounters troubles on the way to the moon. To ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

More than 55 years ago, three Apollo 13 astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon plans to reach the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered troubles. The astronauts' perilous journey ...

He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.” James A. Lovell Jr., right, and Fred W. Haise ...