As the lights dimmed at Showbiz Cinemas here on a recent evening, Fred Haise, the last surviving member of the Apollo 13 crew ...
Apollo 13 is coming to IMAX theaters near you. This limited re-release runs from Sept 19-25 to celebrate the film’s 30th ...
Ron Howard and his crew — including Tom Hanks, Brian Grazer, Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Clint ...
Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, Lovell wrote a book about the near-disaster that inspired the ...
What really happened on Apollo 13? In April 1970, three astronauts were headed to the Moon when a deadly oxygen tank explosion turned their mission into a fight for survival. With systems failing and ...
It’s incredible to witness the star power that Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton bring to Apollo 13 as Jim Lovell, Jack ...
Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.
Letter writers told the crew that their stunning pale blue dot photo of Earth from the moon, a world first, and the crew’s Christmas Eve reading from Genesis saved America from a tumultuous 1968. The ...
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 ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The crew of Apollo 13 had successfully repurposed the ship's lunar module to take them back to Earth. The problem was that the module was only ...
The Apollo 13 mission had a lifelong impact on Lovell But the big rescue mission was still to come. That was during the harrowing Apollo 13 flight in 1970. Lovell was supposed to be the fifth man to ...
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, ...