Gemini 12 crewmates Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell celebrate aboard the USS Wasp on November 15, 1966, at the conclusion of their four-day mission. Many artifacts from Lovell’s space career are in ...
Hours after witnessing the first Earthrise, Jim Lovell told mission control: “The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.” NASA It’s arguably the most iconic ...
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 ...
‘Dad always says: ‘Never leave home without duct tape!’,” chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970.