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A feature on the Moon's surface (Mount Marilyn) was named by Lovell in honor of his wife. The spacecraft splashed down safely before dawn on December 27 after 147 hours of flight, 4.8 kilometers (2.6 nmi) from the recovery ship, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. It was estimated that the crew had traveled 933,419 kilometers (504,006 nmi). [84]
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 ...
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 ...
Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise pose for a photo. Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event.
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.
Buzz Aldrin is loving married life. Aldrin, who in July 1969 embarked on the Apollo 11 mission with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, spoke to People to mark the 55th anniversary of the moon ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon. Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 46– 116. ISBN 978-0-8032-8509-5. LCCN 2015042585. Cernan, Eugene; Davis, Don (2000). The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space.