The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

The astronauts may have become the superstars of those famous trips to the Moon, but "Apollo 13" is an entertaining reminder that they'd have been stuck on the launchpad without some very clever ...

Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield sat down with Vanity Fair in 2020 to discuss the accuracy of various space movies. Apollo 13 — directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and ...

Lovell was played by Tom Hanks in the movie that was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. "Apollo 13," ...

The movie also included some of the real-life human drama surrounding the mission. Gary Sinise (as astronaut Ken Mattingly) was Apollo 13's prime command module pilot, who was grounded days before ...

The ending of Apollo 13 Survival is a tale of triumph. Against all odds, the three astronauts, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert and Jim Lovell, safely return to Earth.

If you didn’t live through the drama that was Apollo 13, you’ve probably seen the movie starring Tom Hanks. And even though the mission never made it to the moon, the Apollo 13 astronauts and ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, a panoramic high-definition image of astronaut Fred Haise napping in the “lifeboat” Lunar Module has been produced.

In Ron Howard’s 1995 movie “Apollo 13,” actor Gary Sinise portrayed Mr. Mattingly tinkering alone for hours in a simulator testing a plan for the astronauts to retreat to Apollo’s lunar ...

LOS ANGELES — Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced.