Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed the crew — Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise -- to slingshot around the moon and return to earth safely, using the ...

Jim Lovell, a Navy man ... tank almost cost Lovell and his crewmates their lives. Quick thinking, in space and in mission control, was required to return the crew safely to earth.

Up in space, Jim Lovell suspected that he and his crew mates ... If that had happened then we might have given up’.” Although down at mission control medics told the crew to try and get ...