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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 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 ...
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 named) in which an astronaut "named Jim" faces mortal peril in an Apollo spacecraft.
In the film, Howard cast his own mother, Jean Speegle Howard, to play the mom of astronaut Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks). Ron Howard Reflects on Making 'Apollo 13' Following the Film's 25th ...
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan.The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
Marilyn’s therapist, Dr. Greenson, remembers his time with Marilyn the summer before her death. “She couldn’t sleep, and she said how worthless she felt,” he told Vanity Fair in 1991.