James Lovell may be best known as the commander of ... Lovell shucked his, causing his young son to later exclaim, “My Dad orbited the Earth in his underwear!” Borman and Lovell—who ended ...

I might get two weeks in with [Jim] Lovell though." When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration prepared to select seven astronauts for the Mercury program in the late 1950s ...

From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders were able to describe the surface of the moon in detail. "The back side [of the moon] looks like a ...