Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 safely returned to the ground, is 97 years old

ASTRONAUT JIM LOVELL, APOLLO 13 MISSIONS 1970 He died safely to the ground, at the age of 97.

Nasa said “Potential tragedy has become a success” after an attempt to land the moon as a result of an explosion on the spaceship while hundreds of thousands of miles away from the ground.

They saw thousands of billions of millions of Lovell and two other astronauts sprinkled on the back of the Pacific, the time it has become one of the iconic of the space travel history.

Lovell, which was part of the Apollo 8 mission, was the first man to go to the moon.

Sean Duffy Sean Duffy said Lovell helped the US Space Program to “forgive historical path”.

In a statement, Lovell’s family said, “We will lose optimism of his optimism, the meaning of his humor and we can do that every one of us can do it impossible. It was a really kind.”

On a Saturday, a 16-year-old woman had a three-foot heavy tube in the middle of a large Wisconsin field.

He convinced his science teacher to help make a rocket. Somehow, he managed to get his hands on gunpowder – potassium nitrate, sulfur and coal.

He threw the helmet of the weld due to protection. He packed with the dust, he hit a game and went like hell.

The rocket rose 80 meters and exploded. That the chemicals had a slightly different way, it would be split.

For Jim Lovell, this was more than a childhood Lark.

To achieve a rocket scientist to get the dream, he would become an American hero. But it wouldn’t be easy.

James Arthur Lovell Jr. Born on March 25, 1928 – Charles Lindbergh had only a year after the Atlantic journey.

“Boys like dinosaurs or planes,” he said. “I was a very plane.”

When he was five years old, his father died in a car accident.

His mother, Blanche, worked all the time – Fights to keep clothes and food. The university was beyond his financial reach.

The answer was the hunger of new pilots after US II. It wasn’t building rockets, but at least he flew.

Lovell signed the military expenditure to the university to sign a program while training the fighter pilot.

In two years, he headed to the Annapolis Army Academy and in Chesapeake Bay, hoping to work with his beloved rockets.

Decided it was lucky.

A few months later, the Korean war exploded and the former pilot of his course was sent to Southeast Asia. Many have never finished education.

The marriage was banned from Annapolis and the girlfriends were recommended. The army did not want his centers to waste their time.

But Lovelle had dear. Marilyn Gerlach was a high school and asked Prom.

Women were not allowed on campus and external exits were limited to 45 minutes. Somehow the relationship lasted.

The hours after graduating in 1952, Ensign Lovell recently married.

They would be more than 70 years old together until Marilyn in 2023.

He did everything he could predict the love of rocket.

At the Army Academy his thesis was at the head of the engines of liquid fuels. After graduating, he hoped to specialize in this pioneering new technology.

But the army had other ideas.

Lovell was assigned to a group of carriers. It was a white run, the brave of the great wire business is brave. But for Lovell, it wasn’t enough.

In 1958, he asked Nasa.

Project Mercury American attempt was an effort to put the man around the earth. Jim Lovell was one of the 110 test piles, but the temporary liver situation paid his options.

Four years later, he tried again.

In June 1962, after the medical test, NASA announced the “Nine News”. These would be the commitment of President Kennedy to put boots on the Moon.

It was a set of flying men ever mounted. Neil Armstrong, John Young and, fulfilled his childhood dream, Jim Lovell.

Three years later he was ready.

Its first journey was on the boat of two men in Gemini. Lovell and astronaut Frank Borman steak and egg breakfast and exploded.

Their role: Males could know that two weeks could survive in space. Otherwise, the moon was available.

Full Endurance Record, Lovell’s next flight was in Gemini 12 commands, buzz aldrin’s space.

This time the man proved that it could work outside of a spacecraft. The aldrin turned the gap, and takes five hours photos.

To make the moon itself.

Apollo 8 crew would be the first to travel beyond the earth orbit of the earth and enter the gravitational of another celestial body.

It was still the most dangerous mission of NASA.

Lovell was shot at Saturn V rocket, three times higher than 25,000 miles per hour after Anders.

In the browser, Lovelle took Sextant to make star readings with Sextant – they failed the computer and they had to find the way home.

After picking up and after sixty-eight hours, they did.

The engines were shot and Apollo 8 slipped silently on the moon. Men heard the announcements on their headphones, radio signals failed to control the mission and then failed.

Spelling astronauts were resorted to the windows, the first humans to see the distant differences in the nearby neighbor of our heaven. And then above the advanced horizon, a tremendous sight.

“Earthrise”, gasped Borman.

“Camera, fast,” Lovell said.

It was Christmas Eve in 1968.

America admired in Vietnam abroad and at home is a civil unrest. At that moment, however, humanity seemed to join.

The people of the world saw the planet as astronauts saw, brittle and beautiful – bright in the desotation of space.

Lovell read Genesis’s book, the basis of many of the great religions of the world, to people of the earth.

“And God called the daylight, and darkness called night. And the first day of the evening and the morning were.”

For him, it was the image that changed our world forever. He put his finger against the window and disappeared behind the whole world. It was the most important experience of his life.

As the spaceship was created from darkness, Lovell first announced the good news. “Please advise,” said the radio step back in life, “There is a Santa Claus.”

At the very time, 239,000 kms, a man of Rolls-Royce out of Houston outside the home of Lovlell.

They camped out of the campsavan they went dozens and left a box in Marilyn.

He opened the role of the star model and pulled the mink jacket. “Happy Christmas,” he said the card came with him, “and loved the moon man.”

They rose as an astronaut and fell by celebrities. The people of the earth continued on TV.

Ticker Tape Parades, Congress Honors and Time magazine were on the cover. And they didn’t set the foot on the moon.

This honor went, of course, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Altrin.

A year later, Kennedy’s dream was seen at the postume. It took a small step and the man took his giant jump. Nine new work.

In April 1970, it was Jim Lovell’s turn. Luckily, the Apollo 13 crew did not believe in unhappy numbers.

Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise were men in Science. They were very trained and determined to follow Armstrong and the Altrin to the lunar surface. But things went wrong.

Above the earth were 200,000 miles and closed to its purpose, when they saw a low pressure on a hydrogen tank. The cold gas needed to be mixed is fixed in layers.

Swister interrupted. The routine procedure should be, but the Command Module, Odyssey, trembling. Oxygen pressure has fallen and shut down.

“I think we had a problem here,” Swisker said. Lovell had to repeat the message with a spectacular mission control: “Houston, we had a problem.”

It was one of the most underestrials of all time. The crew was in a big problem. A dramatic explosion disabled his craft.

Haise and Lovell worked frantically to launch the Moon module, Aquarius.

It wasn’t supposed to be used until you reach the moon. He had no heat weapons, so it cannot be used to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. But he could keep them alive until he reached there.

The world had to breathe and watched.

For the second time, Jim Lovell took the world together. The first time it was for the earth, the second would be to witness the fight to survive.

“Four days,” Marilyn said, “I didn’t know I was a wife or widow.”

Temperatures fell frost, food and water were rationalized. It was a few days before returning to the edges of the earth’s atmosphere. Odyssey climbed on the boat and prayed to the heated heat.

The radio silence that sends again was much longer than normal. They saw millions of television, many persuaded everything that lost.

After agonizing six minutes, Jack Swigert’s voice was cut through silence.

The territory of the earth breathed until the parachutes has spread and the crew came down safely.

The mission was the greatest failure of NASA and certainly his best hour.

Lovell retired from the boat in 1973 and working for a quiet life, working on the Bay-Houston Rowing Company, giving and serving the Eagle Scout Association National Contevation.

His book, Lost Moon: A dangerous journey of Apollo 13 became famous in the 1995 film, the protagonist Tom Hanks like Jim Lovell.

For the film, the director asked him to dress as an admiral. Cameo was a scene when shaking hands when the crew rescued from the sea.

But the old American hero was not.

Jim Lovell was twice to the moon, he witnessed the earth and prevented a cold death in space – and he did not see the reason to fake his strike.

He pulled the old army uniform, poured the dust and put the camene look.

“I retired as captain,” he stressed, “and I will be a captain.”