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James Arthur Lovell Jr. (/ ˈ l ʌ v əl / ⓘ LUV-əl; born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8 , he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders , one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon.
All three of the men who flew to the Moon twice-Jim Lovell, John Young and Gene Cernan-were Gemini veterans. With the exception of Elliot See , every member of NASA's second Astronaut Group —the class of nine men selected following the Mercury Seven —flew as a Gemini astronaut.
The nine astronauts were Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Pete Conrad, Jim Lovell, James McDivitt, Elliot See, Tom Stafford, Ed White, and John Young. The Next Nine were the first astronaut group to include civilian test pilots: See had flown for General Electric, and Armstrong had flown the X-15 rocket-powered aircraft for NASA. Six of the nine ...
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Gemini 7 (officially Gemini VII) [5] was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.It was the fourth crewed Gemini flight, the twelfth crewed American spaceflight, and the twentieth crewed spaceflight including Soviet flights and X-15 flights above the Kármán line.
The astronaut, who became the 100th woman in space, wrote on Instagram on Nov. 24 that a video showing her emotional reaction during the roughly 10-minute flight was taken down "across all ...
Astronaut Jim Lovell and his wife Marilyn Lovell referred to the film years later in a special interview. Their recollection is shared as a feature on the DVD release of Apollo 13, a 1995 film directed by Ron Howard. The couple describes a 1969 film—never specifically named—in which an astronaut in an Apollo spacecraft "named Jim" faces ...
Apollo 11 space-flown silver Robbins Medallion from the first spaceflight to land on the Moon.Presented to Wally Schirra by Neil Armstrong.. NASA space-flown Gemini and Apollo medallions were mission-specific commemorative medallions, often astronaut-designed, which were approved by NASA and carried aboard the mission spacecraft into orbit.