Oddball
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Another steely eyed missile man and moon astronaut passes...The only one to go to the moon twice, and robbed of his chance to walk the surface because of the famous CM malfunction.
Loved following the Apollo program as a lad...So few of the moonshot astronauts left.
He flew to space four times as a NASA astronaut, including as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission that made a heroic return to Earth following an explosion on the spacecraft. For a time, he held the record for the total amount of time spent in space, at a little under 30 days.
He “lived his life from a position of humility and groundedness, which then allowed him to bring a confidence to his ability to tackle any challenge,” says Michelle Larson, former president and CEO of the Adler Planetarium.
NASA selected Lovell primarily for the Gemini program, a series of missions designed as preparations for the subsequent Apollo program. He first flew to space in December 1965 with Frank Borman as part of the Gemini 7 mission to test the effects of a long trip to space on the human body. In an oral history interview, Lovell said he felt like a “guinea pig.” The astronauts would orbit the Earth for two weeks. Previously, the longest mission had lasted eight days.
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Loved following the Apollo program as a lad...So few of the moonshot astronauts left.
He flew to space four times as a NASA astronaut, including as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission that made a heroic return to Earth following an explosion on the spacecraft. For a time, he held the record for the total amount of time spent in space, at a little under 30 days.
He “lived his life from a position of humility and groundedness, which then allowed him to bring a confidence to his ability to tackle any challenge,” says Michelle Larson, former president and CEO of the Adler Planetarium.
NASA selected Lovell primarily for the Gemini program, a series of missions designed as preparations for the subsequent Apollo program. He first flew to space in December 1965 with Frank Borman as part of the Gemini 7 mission to test the effects of a long trip to space on the human body. In an oral history interview, Lovell said he felt like a “guinea pig.” The astronauts would orbit the Earth for two weeks. Previously, the longest mission had lasted eight days.
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Commander Who Thrived Under Pressure, Dies at 97
The space explorer was determined throughout his life, says Teasel Muir-Harmony, the curator of the Apollo Collection at the National Air and Space Museum
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