The Tom Hanks–starring hit about a failed lunar mission is a great big-screen movie, but its smaller moments are what really ...

Ron Howard and his crew — including Tom Hanks, Brian Grazer, Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Clint ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon ...

Ron Howard's Apollo 13 movie that tells the legendary story of a fated lunar mission is getting a re-release on IMAX on its ...

Read on for some of Howard’s behind-the-scenes secrets about the movie. He accidentally peed himself in front of Kevin Bacon.

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, died at age 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, ...

Ron Howard's mishap was Kevin Bacon's gain – and now the story is resurfacing as 'Apollo 13' returns to theaters.

Watch the APOLLO 13 - 30th Anniversary Trailer. Apollo 13 tells the dramatic true story of the heroic actions needed to bring a three-astronaut crew ...

“I realized I had gone to Heaven when I was born, arriving on a planet with the proper mass to have the gravity to contain water and an atmosphere, the essentials for life,” Lovell said. “It was a ...

Play the USA TODAY Quick Cross now. The Ron Howard film released on June 30, 1995, told the story of the Apollo 13 crew's return to Earth after an oxygen tank exploded during the voyage, leaving them ...

I pity the people who couldn't admire James Arthur Lovell Jr.'s life while he was still alive. In a world where I feel like people of importance who aren't athletes or brain-dead celebrities are ...