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 ...

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 ...

Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission, has died, NASA announced Friday. He was 97. Apollo 13, a 1970 flight to the moon, became known as a "successful failure" after the ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Those words, from astronaut James Lovell to NASA, gripped the world for four days in 1970 as astronauts on Apollo 13 worked furiously to get back to earth after an ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, poses for a portrait in his space suit on Feb. 16, 1970. CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn ...

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, ...

Apollo 13 director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer paid tribute today to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon mission on which they based their hit 1995 movie. The astronaut died Thursday ...

The actor portrayed the leader of the mission to the moon in the 1995 film. By Lexi Carson Associate Editor “There are people who dare, who dream and who lead others to the places we would not go on ...

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, ...

The late astronaut died in Lake Forest, Ill. on Thursday, Aug. 7 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared on Variety, The ...

“God speed you, on this next voyage,” said Hanks of the NASA commander he played back in 1995 getty; Universal/courtesy Everett Collection Tom Hanks posted a tribute on social media to James Lovell, ...

Tom Hanks took to Instagram to remember Jim Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in the 1995 Ron Howard–directed film "Apollo 13." Lovell, best known for commanding the near-disastrous Apollo 13 mission ...