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James Arthur "Jim" Lovell, Jr. (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control. Lovell was also the command module pilot of Apollo 8, the first Apollo ...
Jim Lovell. James Arthur Lovell Jr., detto Jim ( Cleveland, 25 marzo 1928 ), è un astronauta statunitense della NASA. Volò a bordo delle missioni Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 ma divenne famoso quale comandante della missione Apollo 13: dopo un problema al serbatoio dell' ossigeno, infatti, fu costretto ad annullare la discesa sulla Luna .
13 de abr. de 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 ...
James A. Lovell Jr., was born March 25, 1928, in Cleveland, Ohio. His father died in a car accident when Lovell was young. He graduated from Juneau High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After attending the University of Wisconsin for two years he transferred to the United States Naval Academy, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1952.
7 de abr. de 2020 · Three astronauts rode aboard Apollo 8: James Lovell, William Anders and Cmdr. Frank Borman, shown here in a photograph taken a few months before their flight. (Image credit: NASA/MSFC) Apollo 13
17 de may. de 2024 · On December 21, 1968, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back.”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service module and was the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket. On Christmas Eve, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were the first humans to orbit ...
James Lovell may be best known as the commander of Apollo 13. During that April 1970 mission, the service module’s cryogenic oxygen system failed, putting the astronauts’ lives in danger. For ...
