NASA said on Friday, Lovell said he died in Illinois, Lake Forest, Illinois on Thursday.
“Jim’s character and determined courage helped our nation to reach the moon and turned a potential tragedy into a tremendous success.” He said. “Even when celebrating their achievements, we mourn his passage.”
Lovell, one of NASA’s most traveling astronauts in the first decade of the agency, flew four times – Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 – two Apollo flights, two Apollo flights that return the earth.
In 1968, the Apollo 8 crew of Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders was the first person to fly to the moon and the first to leave the moon. They could not land, but they put the US in front of the Soviets in the space race.
Letter writers, the crew, said that the striking pale blue point photographs of the world from Moon, a world, and the Christmas Arafi of the Cretebat from Genesis, saved America from a turbulent 1968. But the big rescue task was still coming. This was in April 1970 during the disturbing Apollo 13 flight. Lovell had to be the fifth man walking a month. However, the service module of Apollo 13, which carries Lovell and two other people, experienced a sudden oxygen tank boom on the way to the moon. The astronauts barely survived, spent four cold and humid days as a lifeguard in the congested moon module. “What I want to remember most people to remember was very successful in a 1994 interview.” He said. He continued: “Not because we have achieved anything, but a success because we show the ability of (NASA) staff.”
Lovell, a retired navy captain, known for his calm attitude, told a NASA historian that his brush affected him with death.
Orum I’m not worried about crises anymore, dedi he said in 1999. When there was a problem, “I say, I could go back in 1970. I’m still here. I’m still breathing.” I mean, I’m not worried about crises. ”
And the popular 1995 film “Apollo 13” in the re -narration Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert brought renovated fame – partly expressed that Lovell’s “Houston has a problem” film.
Lovell’s vessels had ice juice like other astronauts, but the Smithsonian Institute historian Roger Launius, some of them, did not only show the quiet confidence of some. Lovell to “Very handsome, very below a type of person,” this is what I do. Yes, there is a risk. I measure the risk, “he said.
In total, the Lovell has blown four space tasks – and until the Skylab flights in the mid -1970s, the world record for the longest time with 715 hours, 4 minutes and 57 seconds.
In Apollo 8, Lovell told the oceans and land masses of the land. “What I continue to imagine, if I were a lonely traveler from another planet, what I would think of about the earth at this altitude, or if I think it would be old, dedi he said.
Launius said that this mission may be as important as the historical Apollo 11 Mooning, a flight that makes it possible by Apollo 8.
“I can say that Jim is one of the columns of Jim’s early space flight program,” NASA’s legendary flight director Gene said, ” He said.
However, if historians see Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 as the most important of the Apollo missions, Lovell’s last task, which was immortalized by Tom Hanks, came to the public to embody the cool, decisive astronaut image.
Lovell, Haise and Swigert’s Apollo 13 crew, in April 1970, went to the month, when an oxygen tank exploded from the Earth 200,000 miles from the spaceship.
Lovell remembered “the most scary moment in this thing”. Then the oxygen began to escape and “We didn’t have solutions to go home.”
“We knew we were in a deep, deep trouble.” He said.
Four -fifth of the road to the Moon NASA scrapped the task. Suddenly, his only goal was to survive.
Lovell’s “Houston, we had a problem”, Swigert’s variation of a comment that has previously made radio was famous. “Houston, we have a problem.”
What has emerged in the next four days has caught the imagination of the nation and the world, which was largely indifferent to the fact that it seems to be a routine task until then.
While the Lovell spacecraft was commanded, Kranz directed hundreds of flight controllers and engineers in an angry rescue plan.
The plan included astronauts from the serving module with oxygen bleeding rationalization of decreasing oxygen, water and electricity.
Using the Moon Module as a lifeguard boat, they swung around the moon, targeted the Earth and ran home.
By solving the most intense pressure problems that may come to mind in a cool way, he became astronauts and the crew hero on the ground. In the process of transforming into a routine life struggle, the entire flight crew created one of NASA’s best moments of NASA, and nine months ago with the marches of Buzz Aldrin.
“They showed the world that they could really assume scary problems and revive them,” Launius said. He said.
Lovell is a 1995 interview for a story on Mission’s 25th anniversary, the loss of the opportunity to walk in the month.
President Bill Clinton adopted in 1995 when he gave Lovell a Congress Medal.
Although Lovell was once disappointed, he said, “The fact that the task itself and that we have gained victory in certain disasters gives me a deep sense of satisfaction.”
And Lovell clearly understood why this unsuccessful task provided much more than the fact that Apollo 13 reached its goal.
“Going to the Moon, if everything works correctly, it’s like following a diningbook. It’s not such a big deal,” he said in 2004 to the AP.
James A Lovell was born on March 25, 1928 at Cleveland. Maryland went to the University of Wisconsin before he was transferred to the US Warfish Academy in Annapolis. The day he graduated in 1952, he and his wife Marilyn married.
In 1962 he was chosen as astronaut by NASA.
In 1973, Lovell retired from the navy and space program and entered the private business world. In 1994, Jeff Kluger and the story of the Mission of Apollo 13 and the basis of the film “Apollo 13” wrote “Lost Moon”. In one of the last scenes, Lovell actually appeared as a ranking navy captain.
He and his family, Lovell Lake Forest, now a closed restaurant in Chicago suburb.
His wife Marilynn died in 2023. The survivors contain four children.
