Ron Howard admitted he didn't think his mother, Jean Speegle Howard, could play a role in Apollo 13. The actress took her false teeth out during an audition to prove she could play older. "I said, ...

Thirty years after depicting space like no film before (or since), Ron Howard and his crew — including Tom Hanks, Brian Grazer, Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Clint Howard — ...

Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission, has died, NASA announced Friday. He was 97. Apollo 13, a 1970 flight to the moon, became known as a "successful failure" after the ...

CHICAGO – 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, ...