Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 died at 97 years old

John

By John

James Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 who contributed to transforming a lunar mission failed into a triumph of the engineering of the “one can do” on the fly, died yesterday in Lake Forest, Illinois, at the age of 97. This was announced by Associated Press, reporting the NASA declaration, which underlined that “Jim’s character and the unshakable courage helped our nation to reach the Moon and transformed a potential tragedy into a success from which we learned a lot”. “We cry his disappearance even if we celebrate his successes,” added the civil government agency responsible for the spatial program and aerospace research of the United States of America. Lovell flew four times – Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 – with the two flights Apollo who fascinated people on earth. In 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 composed of Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders was the first to leave the earth’s orbit and the first to fly to the moon. They were unable to land, but they put the United States in front of the Soviets in the space race.