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Tom Hanks pays tribute to Jim Lovell, the famed astronaut he portrayed in “Apollo 13”: 'Godspeed you, on this next voyage'

Tom Hanks paid homage to the famed astronaut Jim Lovell, whom he portrayed in the Academy Award-winning 1995 feature Apollo ...

Tom Hanks Honors the Real Person Who Inspired His Famous Role

The actor paid a touching tribute to the late historical figure, who sadly passed away at the age of 97 on Thursday.

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 ...

Did Jim Lovell say 'Houston, we have a problem'? Iconic quote keeps echoing.

It's low-hanging fruit to use the line "Houston, we have a problem" when something goes wrong in the Texas metropolis. But ...