al.com

Apollo 13 moon mission leader, played by Tom Hanks in iconic movie, dead at 97: ‘He was our Hero’

Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, died Thursday at the age of 97, NASA announced on Friday. Lovell, who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering as ...
WDSU

Tom Hanks, who portrayed Jim Lovell in ‘Apollo 13,’ pays tribute to the late astronaut

Tom Hanks is honoring the real-life hero whom he once portrayed in a popular, Oscar-winning film.After the death of astronaut Jim Lovell was announced on Friday, Hanks shared a poignant social media ...
Hosted on MSN

Tom Hanks Pays Tribute to Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell After Death

Tom Hanks paid tribute to Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell in a touching Instagram post following the space explorer's death at age 97. The astronaut, who Hanks portrayed in the 1996 film, Apollo 13, ...