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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]
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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
Astronaut Bill Anders, who orbited the moon aboard Apollo 8 in 1968, has died in a plane crash off the coast of Washington state. His photo 'Earthrise' captivated the world.
Swigert was the astronaut who first announced, "Houston, we've had a problem here". [15] The statement was then repeated by commander of the flight Jim Lovell . Swigert, along with fellow astronauts Lovell and Fred Haise , traveled around the Moon and returned safely to Earth on April 17 after about 5 days and 23 hours, and received the ...