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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 ...
Kathleen Denise Quinlan (born November 19, 1954) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies and series, in a career ...
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.
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 ...
Frank Frederick Borman II was born on March 14, 1928, at 2162 West 11th Avenue in Gary, Indiana, [1] the only child of Edwin Otto Borman (1901–1994), who owned an Oldsmobile car dealership there, and his wife Marjorie Ann Borman (née Pearce; 1903–1989), who named him after his paternal grandfather.
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