Jim Lovell
Jim Lovell
James Arthur "Jim" Lovell, Jr.is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control. Lovell was also the command module pilot of Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to enter lunar orbit. He is a recipient of the Congressional Space...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth25 March 1928
CountryUnited States of America
The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.
Houston, we've had a problem here
I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.