Ron Howard is looking back at Apollo 13 and the role his dad, Rance Howard, played in the film.

Houston, we have a problem.” — and director Ron Howard had a few of them himself shooting his riveting, reality-based 1995 ...

As the lights dimmed at Showbiz Cinemas here on a recent evening, Fred Haise, the last surviving member of the Apollo 13 crew ...

Director Ron Howard's 1995 space rescue thriller lives on with a special anniversary edition for one week only starting Sept.

Kevin Costner had the chance to star in a classic, but turned down the part, allowing Hanks to star in another 1990s classic ...

Tom Hanks is honoring the real-life hero whom he once portrayed in a popular, Oscar-winning film.After the death of astronaut Jim Lovell was announced on Friday, Hanks shared a poignant social media ...

Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise (played by Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton, respectively) were ...

Apollo 13 was meant to be a routine Moon mission but became a fight for survival. This documentary explores the crisis, the ...

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 ...

Apollo 13 is preparing for a re-launch. The 1995 Universal Pictures film is making a weeklong return to IMAX theaters from September 19th through the 25th. This is the first time that the film will be ...

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, ...

Jim Lovell, the naval aviator and mechanical engineer who is most famous for commanding the space mission Apollo 13 safely back to Earth after mechanical issues led to an aborted moon landing in 1970, ...