chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970. ­After an onboard explosion left their Moon-bound craft leaking oxygen ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit.

The film focuses on the story of the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and stars ... to play the mom of astronaut Jim Lovell, who was portrayed in the film by Tom Hanks. Though the filmmaker ...

October 2010 – The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center is established in Chicago. November 2011 – An Apollo 13 checklist that Lovell used for calculations sells at auction for ...

I would have never volunteered as Jim Lovell did to go back on Apollo 13." Borman briefly advised President Richard Nixon on space policy before joining Eastern Airlines and serving as its ...