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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.
The Astronaut Wives Club was an informal support group of women, sometimes called Astrowives, whose husbands were members of the Mercury 7 group of astronauts. The group included Annie Glenn , Betty Grissom , Louise Shepard , Trudy Cooper , Marge Slayton , Rene Carpenter , and Jo Schirra .
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 ...
Some had affairs with the female groupies that flocked around them. [98] NASA actively sought to protect the astronauts and the agency from negative publicity and maintain an image of "clean-cut, all-American boy[s]." [99] The seven Mercury astronauts agreed to share equally any proceeds from interviews regardless of who flew first. [21] [100]
The Astronaut Wives Club is a 2013 New York Times Bestselling book by the American author Lily Koppel based on the experiences of the Astronaut Wives Club, who were wives of US astronauts. [1] It was first published on June 11, 2013, by the Hachette Book Group and provided the basis for the 2015 television series, The Astronaut Wives Club .
The female astronaut and MIT engineer joined Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company Blue Origin on their ninth human rocket mission to fly past the Kármán line — a boundary that separates Earth’s ...
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 ...
The 40-year-old astronaut was even set to be part of NASA's first all-female spacewalk, but several issues — first equipment errors and later McClain's return to earth — delayed that effort.