Jim Lovell
See also: Lovell
James Arthur Lovell, Jr. , known as Jim Lovell (born the March 25th 1928) is old a Astronaute of NASA, known to have been the commander of the dramatic mission Apollo 13.
Biography
Born with Cleveland, Ohio, he studied with the Université of Wisconsin, where he joined fraternity Alpha Phi Omega then the United States Naval Academy. He was mobilized during the Guerre of Korea.
He was selected as astronaut in 1962 in group 2 of NASA.
He took his retirement of NASA in 1973 and became contractor until in 1991. He married in 1952 and has four children.
Flights carried out
Lovell was pilot replacing mission Gemini 4, then made its first flight on Gemini 7 in December 1965 and took share with the first docking in space with Gemini 6 A.On this occasion, it beat the record of duration in space, with 14 days.
It was expected that Lovell was commander replacing of the mission Gemini 10, but after the death of Elliott See and Charles Bassett, he became commander of Gemini 9 has, and, in November 1966, made its second flight as a commander on the mission Gemini 12. After these two missions, he became the pilot to have spent the most time in the espace.
He took share with the mission Apollo 8 following the unavailability of Michael Collins, in company of Frank Borman and William Anders, the first in lunar orbit. He pulverized, on this occasion the record of the greatest distance of the Earth, the duration of a voyage in space, and belonged to the first men to directly see the Hidden side of the Moon.
The April 11th 1970, Lovell took off with Apollo 13 in company of Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, having to land on the Moon with Hates. But an oxygen tank exploded the April 13rd and the mission was diverted. Using the reserves of the lunar module, Lovell and its crew made it tower of the Moon (a half-turn was technically impossible) without carrying out the mission envisaged and returned safe the April 17th. Lovell was thus one of the three men to going twice towards the Moon, but was the only one of the three never not to pose the pied.
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Others
He wrote, in collaboration with a journalist of the Time Jeffrey Kluger, a book on the mission Apollo 13, Lost Moon . This book was adapted to the cinema by Ron Howard, with Tom Hanks in her role. Jim Lovell made there a Caméo at the any end of film, in the role of the commander of the carry-helicopter Iwo-Jima .
External bonds
- official Biography on the site of NASA
- a summary of the accomplished flights
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