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The commander of Apollo 13, Jim Lovell, has died at the age of 97. Jim was played by Tom Hanks in the 1995 movie of the ...
One of NASA’s most traveled astronauts in the agency’s first decade, he flew four times — Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and ...
Tom Hanks has paid an emotional tribute to the famed astronaut he portrayed in Apollo 13. It was announced yesterday (8 ...
Tom Hanks paid tribute to Jim Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in 'Apollo 13,' following news of Lovell’s death Friday at ...
Lovell famously delivered the news to mission control, saying “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” The exchange was later ...