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

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

Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's Oscar-winning dramatization of NASA's ill-fated mission to send astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom ...

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

EXCLUSIVE: Apollo 13 mission commander astronaut Jim Lovell, memorialized through Tom Hanks’ performance in the Best ...

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 ...

Directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon, "Apollo 13" bills itself as "the dramatic true story" of how NASA engineers in Houston, Texas, worked with the ...

Apollo 13, Ron Howard's docudrama about a disastrous mission to the moon, turns 30 this month. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton led the cast, each playing the real-life astronauts who ...

Ron Howard, who directed "Apollo 13," reportedly went to great effort to ensure the on-screen depiction of the mission was as accurate and realistic as possible.