On November 11, 1966, the Gemini 12 mission launched. Gemini 12 was the last mission of the Gemini program. It had two astronauts on board: Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin. NASA wanted to send humans ...

In 1966, the Gemini XII Mission concluded the NASA's Project Gemini with Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and James Lovell. During the mission, Aldrin performed three extra-vehicular activities ... NASA and Jim ...

WASHINGTON — NASA will honor astronaut James “Jim” Lovell, Jr., with the presentation of an Ambassador of Exploration Award for his contributions to the U.S. space program. During a ceremony ...

On August 27, 2023, Marilyn Lillie Lovell, wife of Captain James A. Lovell, Jr., American astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs, died peacefully in Lake Forest, Illinois, surrounded by her ...

Over the next eight years, he would fly the Gemini 7 and Gemini 12 Earth-orbiting missions; the Apollo 8 mission, which was the first to orbit the moon; and the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 mission.

Marilyn Lovell, the wife of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell whose steely resolve during the troubled space flight’s agonizing return to Earth in 1970 highlighted the emotional strain of ...