The director, 71, told Vulture in an interview published on Aug. 13 that he needed some convincing from his dad, Rance Howard ...

The 71-year-old put his mum Jean Speegle Howard, in his 1995 space drama movie as astronaut Jim Lovell's mother, but said it took persuasion from her and his father she could looking sufficiently old ...

Five years before Tom Hanks got stuck on an island in Cast Away (2000), he was stuck in space in Ron Howard's film Apollo 13, ...

Apollo 13' director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer pay to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon mission on which ...

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

"Apollo 13," which is heading to IMAX, recounts the perilous 1970 efforts of three astronauts to return to Earth safely ...

Tom Hanks posted a tribute on social media to James Lovell, who died on Aug. 7. Lovell was a NASA astronaut known for ...

Tom Hanks has shared a tribute to James A. Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in the 1995 feature “Apollo 13.” Lovell died ...

The Oscar-winning actor played the real-life commander of the 1970 space mission that nearly ended in tragedy.

Director Ron Howard's harrowing true tale of the unlucky Apollo 13 mission to the moon in 1970 still stands as one of the finest space survival movies of all time and a testament to the ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, whose history-making leadership of a near-disastrous 1970 moon mission was chronicled in the hit film ...