Monday 25 March 2013

Jim Lovell

James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr. was born on March 25, 1928 and he is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the US Navy , most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13  mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, the first of only three people to fly to the Moon twice, and the only one to have flown there twice without making a Landing . Lovell was also the first person to fly in space four times.