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Sep 4, 2023 · Marilyn Lovell in 1968 watching a training session for recovering a space capsule after a landing in the Gulf of Mexico. Her husband, Jim Lovell, was once the nation’s most experienced...
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Jul 24, 2023 · S69-62241 (1969) — Astronaut James A. Lovell. NASA. This photograph shows Apollo 13 astronauts Fred Haise, John Swigert, and James Lovell aboard the recovery ship, USS Iwo Jima after safely touching down in the Pacific Ocean at the end of their ill-fated mission.
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Lovell was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1928. He developed an interest in rocket science as a high school student, and went on to study engineering at the University of Wisconsin, according to The National Aviation Hall of Fame(which he was inducted into in 1998). Lovell then attended the U.S. Naval Academy where he graduated with a bachelor of scien...
Lovell served as a backup for Gemini 4, before being assigned as one of two crew members on Gemini 7, which launched on Dec. 4, 1965. The Gemini 7 flight was an endurance mission in every sense of the word. Lovell and Frank Borman spent more than 330 hours (nearly two weeks) in a spacecraft about the size of a coat closet. The men carried out nearl...
Lovell's last mission was as commander of Apollo 13 in April 1970. He was joined by lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert. Swigert was initially Apollo 13's backup command module pilot, but was asked to join the crew 48 hours before launch time after the original command module pilot, Ken Mattingly, was exposed...
Lovell retired from NASA and the Navy in 1973. He went to work for Bay-Houston Towing Company and became the President and CEO in 1975. He later held executive and board member positions for various other companies before retiring in 1991. Lovell has received many awards and honors including the Collier, Harmon (three times) and Goddard trophies, t...
Jim Lovell, U.S. astronaut of the Gemini and Apollo space programs, commander of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 flight to the Moon in 1970 that was abandoned mid-expedition when an oxygen tank exploded, necessitating a swing around the Moon and a return to Earth.
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Jul 10, 2019 · 2,383: Earthrise image number. Christmas Eve 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 – Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders – were about to get their first glimpse of the far side of the Moon. “We...
Apr 13, 2020 · Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell (at left) and Fred Haise, as seen in a composite of 16mm images from the 1970 mission. (Image credit: NASA, as processed by Andy Saunders via...
