Astronaut and honest-to-God-American Hero Jim Lovell has passed. He was 97.
Lovell was a Naval Aviator who joined NASA after the Mercury missions. He was part of Gemini 7 and 12, but most famously was key on Apollo 8, which first circumnavigated the moon - and Apollo 13, which was the famous disaster in space which became this solar system's most amazing story of survival.
Back in 2009, I saw Mr. Lovell on a panel with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders at the LBJ Library discussing the Apollo 8 Mission. It was awe inspiring.
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He piloted Apollo 13 home flying backwards!
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