The Apollo 11 movie documentary uses real footage from the moon landing in 1969 to show what it was like for the astronauts. The movie was directed by Todd Douglas Miller, who produced it along with ...

Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for a 30th anniversary rerelease in IMAX. Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut who died ...

The Apollo 13 mission in 1969, featuring Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, was fraught with peril, a story brought to ...

Man aspired to go to the Moon, John F, Kennedy said, 'not because it is easy, but because it is hard.' And photo restorer Andy Saunders has applied that same incredible ambition and determination to ...

600 million people around the globe watched when the Moon landings were broadcast on TV on July 20 and 21. While broadcasting those instantly iconic images was not the technological achievement on a ...

That film’s release, a year after the tragic Apollo 1 test launch which killed all three on board, and a year before Nasa’s triumph, made it extraordinarily well-timed to capture everyone’s ...

Tom Hanks shared a moving tribute to the late Jim Lovell on Friday, following his death at 97. The 69-year-old actor was well acquainted with the former NASA astronaut's accomplishments after having ...

However, the mission almost ended in disaster and this 1995 blockbuster directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and ...

Apollo 13 is once again capturing audiences as the Tom Hanks-led drama lands on ITVX, reminding viewers why it remains one of ...

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They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. Now, more than 50 years on, the race to put people back on ...

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