Movies can be an escape from daily life. Viewers can immerse themselves in an entirely fictional world or historical period. But some historical films are more accurate than others. 1995’s Apollo 13 ...

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, ...

Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton), and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) experience the raw, earth-shaking power of ...

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 ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for re-release. NASA announced Lovell, ...

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

Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's Oscar-winning dramatization of NASA's ill-fated mission to send astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) to the Moon ...

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 ...

Houston, we have an anniversary. Ron Howard's Apollo 13 touched down 30 years ago today, captivating audiences with its harrowing real-life tale of a 1970 flight to the moon that nearly ended in ...

Mission controllers discuss the Apollo 13 mission during some point during the last 24 hours before the successful landing on April 17, 1970. How close was Hollywood to depicting a real-life space ...

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 Forest, ...