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

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the ...

One of just 24 people to have flown to the moon, famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell was the first person to fly there twice, but never landed on its rocky surface. Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at age 97, is ...

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 ...

Jim Lovell: after circling the Moon 10 times in Apollo 8 he named twin peaks ‘Mount Marilyn’ after his photogenic wife - NASA Archive/Alamy Jim Lovell, the astronaut, who has died aged 97, was ...

They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The loss of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided the ...

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, ...