Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Commander & Apollo 8 Command Module Pilot Dead

[rfrizz]

He was 97. There aren't many more who have been on and around the Moon left.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jim-lovell-dies-age-97-apollo-13-commander/

 

[Bluesky]

97! God bless him. Imagine being stuffed into a small closet and strapped down over 1000s of gallons of rocket fuel......when no one had ever done it before! Brass big ones. True Patriot. That sprits been missing in this country and hopefully they can honor great patriots like him in the future. RIP. God bless.

 

[SteveC]

Eras are ending all around us.

 

[Bluesky]

Eras are ending all around us.

That used to make me sad. But lately the future is looking better everyday and hopefully our grand kids will have thier own era of greatness. I even ruminated on it.........

 

[THDNUT]

97 is a great run.

RIP Jim!

 

[CB91710]

Copied from TheX's Space Thread:

Had more time in space than any man prior to the Skylab missions at nearly 30 days total
His total time was still longer than the first Skylab mission, but Skylab put Pete Conrad up to almost 50 days in space.
Veteran of 2 Gemini and 2 Apollo flights
Still holds the record (with Swigert and Haise) for the longest distance from Earth and fastest speed (return flight of Apollo 13)

We're down to only 6 Apollo lunar-era astronauts, Aldrin, Scott, Duke, Schmitt, Haise, and Schweickart
Schweickart did not go to the moon, he was in the rotation had the program not been cut at Apollo 17.

Skylab, we still have Kerwin, Lousma, Gibson, and Brand from the ASTP flight.


Interesting thing is, out of the 6 remaining, 4 walked on the moon and 1 flew to the moon without landing.
For all of the paranoia over radiation and other risks of space flight, these guys held up remarkably well.
9 made it into their 90s, and of those who died before hitting 80, only one was a cancer (Shepard died of leukemia)
Most were heart attacks.

 

[CB91710]

 

[six-string]

I've been quoting that guy for 50 years!
"Houston, we have a problem".
RIP Jim.

 

[rogue3]

Hero. He defined the word with his leadership, under fire, literally, of his damaged ship.

...against all odds he prevailed...a true hero. Salute to you Jim. Rest easy.

 

[dc007]

RIP

 

[Bigfoot410]

Gary Sinise FINALLY gets to go to space?

 

[TXOldRedRocker]

True American hero! Those tiny little capsules the Mercury, Saturn and Apollo astronauts flew around in are smaller, with thiner walls than most people realize. The gonads these guys had. Damn. For me, the biggest non-combat heroes our nation has ever had.

Thank you for your bravery, your adventurer spirit, and all you did to better our society, Jim. RIP

 

[gridbias]

He was 97. There aren't many more who have been on and around the Moon left.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jim-lovell-dies-age-97-apollo-13-commander/

 

[gridbias]

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[Cozmik Cowboy]

Interesting thing is, out of the 6 remaining, 4 walked on the moon and 1 flew to the moon without landing.
For all of the paranoia over radiation and other risks of space flight, these guys held up remarkably well.
9 made it into their 90s, and of those who died before hitting 80, only one was a cancer (Shepard died of leukemia)
Most were heart attacks.

Swigert died of cancer at 52.
But being from John Glenn's hometown (New Concord, OH, pop. ~800 then - not, as I have seen & heard more than once, from Cambridge 10 miles east) all this was Big Deal for us, even more than the general '60s space mania, and I recall how they even quarantined the guys who'd only been up & down, or in Earth orbit for fear of space cooties. 2 is still pretty low, especially given the caution about it.

 

[Cozmik Cowboy]

I've been quoting that guy for 50 years!
"Houston, we have a problem".
RIP Jim.

Well, to pick the fly shit out of the pepper, you've been quoting Tom Hanks; Capt. Lovell said "Houston, we've had a problem."
Close, but not the actual quote.

 

[six-string]

Well, to pick the fly shit out of the pepper, you've been quoting Tom Hanks; Capt. Lovell said "Houston, we've had a problem."
Close, but not the actual quote.

Can I quote you on that?
The only Tom Hanks I remember is, "Life is like a box of......WILSON!!!! WILSON!!!! COME BACK WILSON!!".

 

[six-string]

Jim Lovell and David Bowie on the set of The Man Who Fell To Earth.