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The Apollo 8 crew. Left to right: Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman. The Apollo 8 1968 Christmas Eve broadcast and reading from the Book of Genesis while in lunar orbit. Lovell was originally chosen as command module pilot (CMP) on the backup crew for Apollo 9 along with Armstrong as commander (CDR) and Aldrin as lunar module pilot (LMP).
Marilyn Gerlach (1952) Jim Lovell: Married until her death in 2023 Patricia Haas (1957) Jim McDivitt: Divorced 1989 Marilyn Denahy (1954) Elliot See: Married until his death in the 1966 NASA T-38 crash: Faye Shoemaker (1953) Tom Stafford: Divorced 1985 Pat Finegan (1953) Ed White: Married until his death in the 1967 Apollo 1 accident Barbara ...
Mount Marilyn is a lunar mountain within the Montes Secchi, which separate Mare Fecunditatis to the east from Mare Tranquillitatis to the west. It was named at about the time of the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon in 1968 by astronaut Jim Lovell for his wife, Marilyn.
A portion of the lunar far side as seen from Apollo 8. Lovell continued to describe the terrain they were passing over. One of the crew's major tasks was reconnaissance of planned future landing sites on the Moon, especially one in Mare Tranquillitatis that was planned as the Apollo 11 landing site.
Jim Lovell (NASA Astronaut Group 2) March 25, 1928 (age 96) 40 42: Apollo 8 December 21–27, 1968 Apollo 13 April 11–17, 1970: Navy: Intended to land on Apollo 13; only person to fly to the Moon twice without landing. 3 Bill Anders (NASA Astronaut Group 3) October 17, 1933: June 7, 2024 (aged 90) 35: Apollo 8
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Apollo 13: Survival uses archive material and rare access to the complete audio recordings of the mission of astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise.
Paul McCrane is cast as Conrad in episode 7 "That's All There Is", as commander of the second lunar landing mission, Apollo 12. Tim Daly as Jim Lovell, who flies with Borman on Gemini 7 and commands Gemini 12 in episode 1, flies with Borman again on Apollo 8 in episode 4, commands Apollo 13 (off-screen) in episode 8, "We Interrupt This ...