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Astronaut James Lovell Offic
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Astronaut James Lovell Official Portrait |
| Date of Image |
1966-09-09 |
| Full Description |
This is the official NASA portrait of astronaut James Lovell. Captain Lovell was selected as an Astronaut by NASA in September 1962. He has since served as backup pilot for the Gemini 4 flight and backup Commander for the Gemini 9 flight, as well as backup Commander to Neil Armstrong for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. On December 4, 1965, he and Frank Borman were launched into space on the history making Gemini 7 mission. The flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes and included the first rendezvous of two manned maneuverable spacecraft. The Gemini 12 mission, commanded by Lovell with Pilot Edwin Aldrin, began on November 11, 1966 for a 4-day, 59-revolution flight that brought the Gemini program to a successful close. Lovell served as Command Module Pilot and Navigator on the epic six-day journey of Apollo 8, the first manned Saturn V liftoff responsible for allowing the first humans to leave the gravitational influence of Earth. He completed his fourth mission as Spacecraft Commander of the Apollo 13 flight, April 11-17, 1970, and became the first man to journey twice to the moon. The Apollo 13 mission was cut short due to a failure of the Service Module cryogenic oxygen system. Aborting the lunar course, Lovell and fellow crewmen, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise, working closely with Houston ground controllers, converted their lunar module, Aquarius, into an effective lifeboat that got them safely back to Earth. Captain Lovell held the record for time in space with a total of 715 hours and 5 minutes until surpassed by the Skylab flights. On March 1, 1973, Captain Lovell retired from the Navy and the Space Program. |
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Apollo 11 lunar surface pano
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Apollo 11 lunar surface panoramic views |
| Description |
These panoramic views of the lunar surface, photographed from the Apollo 13 Lunar Module (LM) as it rested on the lunar surface, reveal the surface near where the LM touched down in the southeastern Sea of Tranquility as it looked before and after Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin participated in extravehicular activity (EVA). The United States flag is pictured in the bottom or "after" photo, with the black and white lunar surface television camera pictured at right of flag. Shadows of the LM are visible in the two panormaic views and a silhouette of part of a Reaction Control Subsystem thruster is seen in the bottom picture. Note the various footprints made by the two crewmen during their EVA period. |
| Date Taken |
1969-07-20 |
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