Tom Hanks has paid an emotional tribute to the famed astronaut he portrayed in Apollo 13. It was announced yesterday (8 ...

The naval aviator turned astronaut led the mission, guiding it safely back to Earth after it went disastrously wrong.

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

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do ...

With construction of modules for a new station already in progress here on Earth, plans are being made for the retirement and ...

Lovell commanded the Apollo 13 mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a ...

James A. “Jim” Lovell Jr., the NASA astronaut who famously led the Apollo 13 mission through a life-threatening crisis in ...

Tom Hanks paid tribute to Jim Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in 'Apollo 13,' following news of Lovell’s death Friday at ...

The 'Apollo 13' director celebrated the real-life astronaut's 'intellect, courage and commitment to duty' after his death.

NASA has unveiled plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 as part of its Artemis program, which aims to return ...

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.