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Apr 16, 2017 · Jim Lovell, who is now 89, was already an experienced astronaut when he commanded Apollo 13. He had flown on two Gemini missions and was an astronaut on Apollo 8 with Frank Borman and William Anders.
by Alvin Townley. Jim Lovell: Troop 60, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jim Lovell later described the event as a “bang-whump-shudder,” and its reverberations pulsed through the spacecraft, knocking the astronauts into the walls of the cramped ship. Lovell, the mission commander, looked wildly to his crew. He hoped to meet a calm pair of eyes.
Apr 13, 2020 · 50 years ago a Saturn rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. On April 13, an oxygen tank exploded and the Apollo 13 crew was soon in a fight for their ...
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Aug 31, 2023 · On August 27, 2023, Marilyn Lillie Lovell, wife of Captain James A. Lovell, Jr., American astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs, died peacefully in Lake Forest, Illinois, surrounded by her ...
Forty years after Apollo 13, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum welcomed Apollo 13 mission commander Jim Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, Apollo 16 command module pilot Ken Mattingly, and mission controller Gene Kranz for a panel discussion about that historic mission. The lecture was presented April 15, 2010 at the National ...
Sep 1, 2023 · The museum is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Marilyn Lovell. Her strength as a wife and mother was front and center during the Apollo 13 mission as she watched her husband Jim Lovell ...
Dec 21, 2018 · Transcript. [ music ] On December 24th 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called "Earthrise." Now, we can see this historic event exactly as the astronauts saw it, thanks to new data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
