In all of my 74 years, the answer to 'what was my favorite Christmas?' Is still the Christmas of 1968. I can still hear the snow crunching underfoot, a midnight walk in the clear frigid air of Michigan. The moon and stars clear and bright against the deep blackness. Looking a t the moon's radiant light, and knowing that the crew of Apollo 8 is witnessing a new vision of Earth. And the hope that this new perspective of our home planet would lead to goodwill among men. To this day, that hope alone, has been the best Christmas present ever.
I felt really good as well. Like many, I sort of felt like they "saved 1968." (That, and the Tigers winning the World Series. (-;) But Gawd, with what we know now, it's clear it could have been SO different.
@@rosamarialopezfernandez4461he’s humble because he doesn’t big anything up, just says it as it is. He is one of life’s massive achievers but talks about it just one thing after another. Compare to many modern day “celebrities” who do a bit of acting or singing and think they are the dog’s bollocks. Consider the supreme confidence one must have in oneself to do all the training and things he did. Watch the bit of the interview about false idols. He’s humble.
I eat up anything I can find on Apollo era. Lovell is a true American Icon. A true hero. So glad he's still doing well. Not many of them left. What a great life he's lead.
Same here and Apollo 8, 12 and 13 are my favourites !!! I am currently reading ' A man on the moon '...an account of all Apollo flights , totally recommend it !
I literally met him at a gas station about a year after this video was made. He was very cool and surprised that a young person (I was 16) recognized him in the year 2000.
@@traviscloud3941 Lucky you !!! I wish the surviving Apollo Astronauts ( 4 ? ) could come give a talk in the UK before we lose them all . I am reading one Apollo related book after another . I simply can't get enough of that era !
I’ve lived in Houston my entire life, my dad did contract work off and on for NASA and even in a city this big you sometimes would bump into the old guard of space flight. I’ve also met Shepherd (in 1995 I think), Aldrin at a book signing, Alan Bean, and several of the shuttle era astronauts. A friend of mine just happened to live down the road from Kranz…I was just lucky I guess. BTW you’re right, there are 4 moon walkers still alive and I think there are 12 Apollo era astronauts total who are still with us.
@@traviscloud3941 I lived in NYC 2007-2014 and traveled to Texas and Florida ( more than once ) before and during that time but never had the desire to visit the space centres as I wasn't into anything to do with space back then . I sooooooo regret it now. Someday maybe ....BTW , I have always told people that Texas has THE best BBQs in the world ! . :)
Mr Lovell is an amazing human being. His courage to fly Apollo 8 around the Moon was amazing, but his courage and grace during the Apollo 13 issues was what I equate to being a hero. He as much as anyone saved that crew from possible disaster.
I was a little girl during the end of Gemini and during Apollo. All us kids were space crazy and I had such a crush on Jim Lovell. I’m 62 and I still see hearts when I hear his voice. Hahaha During 13 my parents went to great lengths to shield me from the situation. I found out later my Pop was convinced we would lose 3 men to the void.
Damn! I first learned about NASA thanks to my Year 2 (infants Australian school) we were learning about space and she showed a 7yr old the launch sequence of the Apollo 13 movie and I was hooked for 2yrs and then my parents try to keep the interest and then got back into it just this year.
Absolutely one of the best interviews ever! He asked unique and interesting questions. And Jim Lovell has so much class and is very "down to earth", no pun intended. He's humble, humorous, intelligent and just a great all around human being! I have so much respect for the man.
That made me cry ! I've heard Mr Lovell tell his story many times, but brilliant questioning evoked the best rendition I've heard. I was twenty at the time of A13, and vividly remember the tension the world experienced as we followed the unfolding drama. The release of emotion when they safely returned was explosive. I sobbed with relief. It all comes back so clearly.
I love these interviews with Jim Lovell. He is an amazing guy. His contributions to the space program are many and he will be forever remembered. Thank you Captain Lovell !!
Jim Lovell has always been a hero of mine. The events on Apollo 13 are just parts of why I have so much respect for this man. His humor, his knowledge, his eagerness to share knowledge and his overall interest in engineering and aviation. A great person and a superb storyteller.
Dear Jim Lovell I could listen to you for hours! Thank you for your service and for keeping dreams for kids and fans alive ! My son is six years and he want to become an astronaut like YOU !!!
Excellent interview! Here we are 25 years after this interview, and they are still trying to work out how to get back to the moon....Mars??? maybe another 50 years!
The first Apollo flight I really remember was Apollo 8 I remember coming in from Christmas shopping and being glued to the TV. James Burke was great at explaining events on the BBC. I can remember following all the mission update programmes with great interest. As this was the first Saturn V manned launch it is a favourite memory of mine.
Besides obviously having balls of steel to land on aircraft carriers and fly rockets to the moon, Jim Lovell is one of the most genuine and down to earth people i have ever heard speak.
I really wish Jim and Fred Haise had stood up to Ron Howard and the movie producers in 1995 to not show the deceased Jack Swigart as incompetent. Jack was smart.
You simply cannot say or think enough good things about this amazing man. I never get tired of listening to him talk about Apollo and all his space flight experiences.
Listing to Captain Lovell telling his story of how he became an astronaut was fascinating. What a wonderful story. I grew up following the Gemini program, and then later the Apollo program. Thank you Captain Lovell. Y'all are great Americans.
He's one of my major heroes! I watched all of his missions on television, in the moment. In the 60's. I was very, very young for the Gemini missions, but all of Apollo is fondly remember.
Hey, man.That was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen or heard was the reading of Genesis, as these guys are hundreds of thousands of miles away from home.Maybe they'll never get back god bless them
Lovell was one of my favorite astronauts; so enthusiastic and approachable.🤗It could have been him and Haise instead of Cernan and Schmidt on the moon. Fate changed that.
28:32 I've read that Buzz Aldrin was a scuba diver and he was the person who thought of neutral buoyancy training. It could be an oversimplification of course.
Incredible interview. Fun fact: On Apollo 8 Frank Borman got sick and had a bowl movement. It escaped from the bags they used. So while the first time humanity entered the gravitational influence of another celestial body there were shit particles floating around everywhere! And if you read the Apollo Flight Journals which include a full transcript of the mission, not just what they were transmitting to Mission Control, it was God awful!
When you create an objective list of the greatest Americans from the post war until the year 2000, nearly ALL are our astronauts! Not our sports stars, absolutely NOT our politicians, but these men that progressed humanity for all mankind!
Love this guy james flew to moon twice and still didn't have the luck to land there. Was a part of NASA's greatest achievement though during the apollo 13 disaster.
@@marshallcello1128 of course there are anomalies. The camera film should've been next to useless in the vacuum of space. Gaffer tape shouldn't work in a vacuum. The Van Allen belts are STILL a massive problem for cis-lunar travel for humans, 50 years later, apparently not for Apollo in their tin cans though. Thats just a few.
@@garymck5181 obviously the film wasn't useless, as there are numerous photos from the Apollo missions (& others). Gaffers tape did indeed work in a vacuum (why wouldn't it)? The Van Allen Belts were definitely a a problem, however it was one that was surmounted. The Apollo missions traversed them very quickly, and indeed it was determined that all of the astronauts suffered heart damage to varying degrees (whether that was caused specifically by the radiation in the belts or overall exposure over the course of the respective missions is a detail that may not be known). Jim Lovell, John Young, and Gene Cernan all flew to the Moon twice; Lovell is still with us aged 93, so he appears to have weathered it well. The Artemis spacecraft had to do tests in 2014 in the belts because of its mission parameters - and the equipment on board - which is quite different than that aboard Apollo. It passed with flying colours that year and is good to go. It's worth mentioning that Dr James Van Allen, for whom the belts are named, was a _consultant_ for the Apollo program in the early 1960s. One thing to take into account when considering "anomalies" is their origin. There have been many, many missions to the Moon over the past nearly 60 years. Russia, the European Space Agency, India, Japan, Israel and China (the latter of whom recently brought back rocks from the Moon). Thousands upon thousands of scientists and engineers have made - and continue to make - those missions happen. And a lot of them have studied the crap out of Apollo (ever notice how similar other countries' landers are to Apollo's LEMs? There's a reason for that). Anyway, of those thousands of people, over several decades, not one of them has ever come forward to question the veracity of the Apollo record. The people who have done so are never scientists. Bill Kaysing was a furniture maker and a writer who held a bachelor of arts degree. Bart Sibrel ("A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon") is a filmmaker who drove taxi. You can find plenty of support for Apollo hoax theories on youtube, but the same does not hold true for the real world. Go into the science department of any university in the world and try and find someone - in any discipline - who subscribes to the notion that Apollo has "anomalies." You won't find them. The reason is that when things are 100% provable scientifically, it's literally impossible to lie about them. And Apollo really is that provable.
@@garymck5181 "The camera film should've been next to useless in the vacuum of space." == Yet, not a single film manufacturer agrees with you. Why didn't Kodak realize their film wouldn't work? Why didn't any of Kodak's competitors point out that Kodak was participating in a "fraud"? Why can you put a camera into a vacuum chamber, and it works fine? "Gaffer tape shouldn't work in a vacuum." == Says who? Conspiracy videos? Most types of glue will work in space, whether you want to believe it or not. Some glues might not. But, let's get real here, the engineers know which ones worked, and which ones didn't. "The Van Allen belts are STILL a massive problem for cis-lunar travel for humans" == Only if they stay in them a long time. During Apollo, they avoided the worst parts of the belts (except Apollo 14, which went right through the middle of them). And, they were going so fast that the exposure time for the inner belt was only about 15 minutes (that's the worst of the belts). Modern missions avoid them because modern missions last weeks/months, or sometimes even over a year. James Van Allen calculated that it would take about a week in the worst belt before getting a fatal exposure, and that Apollo astronauts would get less than 1% of a fatal dose. What do you know that James Van Allen didn't know? "Thats just a few." == Yeah, sorry, but your favorite conspiracy videos are just plain wrong. Those videos only exist BECAUSE they are wrong. If they had anything to offer that could stand up to scrutiny, it wouldn't be in a conspiracy video, it would be enduring the rigors of the scientific method. They make videos to AVOID the scientific method. Every claim they make falls apart instantly under scrutiny.
@@garymck5181 There are no anomalies, there is just some stuff you don’t understand. People like you puzzle me: There is some piece of reality you don’t understand and immediately you blame reality. Are you an astronaut? A rocket scientist? A expert on vacuum? No? So why do you think your lack of understanding has any importance?
Even though he plays it down, I have to wonder how badly missing out on walking on the moon eats at him. If I were so close to such an achievement and lost it through no fault of my own, I would be pretty disappointed.
Are fuel cells even used much any more on spacecraft? RTGs have advanced a lot, and of course solar cells have improved to an insane degree. And both seem much safer. Has the time of the fuel cell come and gone for space?
Pressure and gas mix is a problem with no easy solution. An idea comes to my mind. I'm sure it was considered, but no idea why it wouldn't work. Why not just build a containment building, just slightly bigger than the CM in every direction, put the CM in it, and pressurize that containment to about 4 psi of normal air mixture? Pressurize the CM to a little more than that, and it could be pure O2, just like on a real flight. The only req't for the containment would be to hold up against the 15 psi outside. It wouldn't even have to be totally leak-proof, as it would only be ordinary air.
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An interviewer who asks intelligent questions, then shuts up to listen. Thank you.
I couldn't agree with you more.
In all of my 74 years, the answer to 'what was my favorite Christmas?' Is still the Christmas of 1968. I can still hear the snow crunching underfoot, a midnight walk in the clear frigid air of Michigan. The moon and stars clear and bright against the deep blackness. Looking a t the moon's radiant light, and knowing that the crew of Apollo 8 is witnessing a new vision of Earth. And the hope that this new perspective of our home planet would lead to goodwill among men. To this day, that hope alone, has been the best Christmas present ever.
I felt really good as well. Like many, I sort of felt like they "saved 1968." (That, and the Tigers winning the World Series. (-;) But Gawd, with what we know now, it's clear it could have been SO different.
I was a boy then also. Went to work for NASA later. Keep it simple bro. You're not that special.
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I'm 39 and your story about this night is so incredible to hear. Thank you!
It is very hard not to have Jim Lovell towards the top of my favorite astronaut list. So intelligent, funny, humble and fearless.
He doesn’t seem very humble to me.
...... towards?
@@rosamarialopezfernandez4461he’s humble because he doesn’t big anything up, just says it as it is. He is one of life’s massive achievers but talks about it just one thing after another. Compare to many modern day “celebrities” who do a bit of acting or singing and think they are the dog’s bollocks.
Consider the supreme confidence one must have in oneself to do all the training and things he did. Watch the bit of the interview about false idols. He’s humble.
I eat up anything I can find on Apollo era. Lovell is a true American Icon. A true hero. So glad he's still doing well. Not many of them left. What a great life he's lead.
Same here and Apollo 8, 12 and 13 are my favourites !!! I am currently reading ' A man on the moon '...an account of all Apollo flights , totally recommend it !
I literally met him at a gas station about a year after this video was made. He was very cool and surprised that a young person (I was 16) recognized him in the year 2000.
@@traviscloud3941 Lucky you !!! I wish the surviving Apollo Astronauts ( 4 ? ) could come give a talk in the UK before we lose them all . I am reading one Apollo related book after another . I simply can't get enough of that era !
I’ve lived in Houston my entire life, my dad did contract work off and on for NASA and even in a city this big you sometimes would bump into the old guard of space flight. I’ve also met Shepherd (in 1995 I think), Aldrin at a book signing, Alan Bean, and several of the shuttle era astronauts. A friend of mine just happened to live down the road from Kranz…I was just lucky I guess. BTW you’re right, there are 4 moon walkers still alive and I think there are 12 Apollo era astronauts total who are still with us.
@@traviscloud3941 I lived in NYC 2007-2014 and traveled to Texas and Florida ( more than once ) before and during that time but never had the desire to visit the space centres as I wasn't into anything to do with space back then . I sooooooo regret it now. Someday maybe ....BTW , I have always told people that Texas has THE best BBQs in the world ! . :)
Mr Lovell is an amazing human being. His courage to fly Apollo 8 around the Moon was amazing, but his courage and grace during the Apollo 13 issues was what I equate to being a hero. He as much as anyone saved that crew from possible disaster.
I was a little girl during the end of Gemini and during Apollo. All us kids were space crazy and I had such a crush on Jim Lovell. I’m 62 and I still see hearts when I hear his voice. Hahaha
During 13 my parents went to great lengths to shield me from the situation. I found out later my Pop was convinced we would lose 3 men to the void.
Damn! I first learned about NASA thanks to my Year 2 (infants Australian school) we were learning about space and she showed a 7yr old the launch sequence of the Apollo 13 movie and I was hooked for 2yrs and then my parents try to keep the interest and then got back into it just this year.
Absolutely one of the best interviews ever! He asked unique and interesting questions. And Jim Lovell has so much class and is very "down to earth", no pun intended. He's humble, humorous, intelligent and just a great all around human being! I have so much respect for the man.
That made me cry ! I've heard Mr Lovell tell his story many times, but brilliant questioning evoked the best rendition I've heard. I was twenty at the time of A13, and vividly remember the tension the world experienced as we followed the unfolding drama. The release of emotion when they safely returned was explosive. I sobbed with relief. It all comes back so clearly.
Fascinating....any time with Jim Lovell is a learning experience....
Lovell and his Crew proved survival is the best success.
I love these interviews with Jim Lovell. He is an amazing guy. His contributions to the space program are many and he will be forever remembered. Thank you Captain Lovell !!
Jim Lovell has always been a hero of mine. The events on Apollo 13 are just parts of why I have so much respect for this man. His humor, his knowledge, his eagerness to share knowledge and his overall interest in engineering and aviation. A great person and a superb storyteller.
Agreed. And there's a kind of sharp bright intelligence always flashing in this eyes as he speaks.
My favorite astronaut, Very pleasant to listen to and always fascinating stories
He would make such an awesome uncle, I can listen to him for days!
What an American hero and icon. Wonderful person. Brilliant.
I wish he would come back to JSC, so I could meet him, personally. What a space pioneer!
Dear Jim Lovell I could listen to you for hours! Thank you for your service and for keeping dreams for kids and fans alive ! My son is six years and he want to become an astronaut like YOU !!!
Excellent interview! Here we are 25 years after this interview, and they are still trying to work out how to get back to the moon....Mars??? maybe another 50 years!
Very fascinating and wonderful person. His intelligence is off the charts yet is very humble and can speak very well to the laymen.
Love listening to Jim tell his story
Excellent, you have to respect this kind of interviews, the right questions obviously get right answers, very well done
Thank you very much.
The first Apollo flight I really remember was Apollo 8
I remember coming in from Christmas shopping and being glued to the TV.
James Burke was great at explaining events on the BBC.
I can remember following all the mission update programmes with great interest.
As this was the first Saturn V manned launch it is a favourite memory of mine.
Besides obviously having balls of steel to land on aircraft carriers and fly rockets to the moon, Jim Lovell is one of the most genuine and down to earth people i have ever heard speak.
I really wish Jim and Fred Haise had stood up to Ron Howard and the movie producers in 1995 to not show the deceased Jack Swigart as incompetent. Jack was smart.
They never showed him as incompetent, what are you talking about
Jim is a true American hero
I’m very thankful for this interview. Jim Lovell is such an important historical figure, among many from this era.
Yes, I consider him as a role model, even at my advanced age.
When everything is flying apart, I think of Apollo 13 and say, "How would Commander Lovell respond?" I have been doing this since 1970. I am now 70.
"The folks at Huntsville" didn't overbuilt the vehicle. They build it so to reach Mars.
Thanks for this. Truly spoken history...
You simply cannot say or think enough good things about this amazing man. I never get tired of listening to him talk about Apollo and all his space flight experiences.
What a hero and such a nice human being.
Ron Stone, is a Houston News Legend!
Listing to Captain Lovell telling his story of how he became an astronaut was fascinating. What a wonderful story. I grew up following the Gemini program, and then later the Apollo program.
Thank you Captain Lovell. Y'all are great Americans.
@1:00:00 it’s amazing how Calm and Collected the 3 astronauts were over the radio when this crisis was happening!!!!!
They weren't women.
He's one of my major heroes! I watched all of his missions on television, in the moment. In the 60's. I was very, very young for the Gemini missions, but all of Apollo is fondly remember.
James Lovell is one guy I 'd like to meet a true gentleman
i love jim lovell he is so polite and awsome
Hey, man.That was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen or heard was the reading of Genesis, as these guys are hundreds of thousands of miles away from home.Maybe they'll never get back god bless them
What a legend
Was a wonderful era, time,,
That second 9, Jim, Armstrong, Borman, White etc etc were the very best of the best.
McDivitt, Stafford, Conrad, See and Young
Great interview
Lovell was one of my favorite astronauts; so enthusiastic and approachable.🤗It could have been him and Haise instead of Cernan and Schmidt on the moon. Fate changed that.
28:32 I've read that Buzz Aldrin was a scuba diver and he was the person who thought of neutral buoyancy training. It could be an oversimplification of course.
They had an extra year. The last day of the 60's is December 31, 1970.
NASA was fully aware of that, and would have used that extra year if they'd needed it.
No it's not
Hearing one of my favorite astronauts mention Huntsville, my home town is awesome. Huntsville, Alabama.
I love Huntsville. I live in Tennessee and we make the drive there about once a month. Went on my honeymoon at the Space and Rocket Center lol.
Without a doubt jim lovell is the best person to go into space with!
awesome video!
Incredible interview. Fun fact: On Apollo 8 Frank Borman got sick and had a bowl movement. It escaped from the bags they used. So while the first time humanity entered the gravitational influence of another celestial body there were shit particles floating around everywhere! And if you read the Apollo Flight Journals which include a full transcript of the mission, not just what they were transmitting to Mission Control, it was God awful!
The one who figured out to train underwater to simulate zero gravity was "Buzz" Aldrin.
When you create an objective list of the greatest Americans from the post war until the year 2000, nearly ALL are our astronauts! Not our sports stars, absolutely NOT our politicians, but these men that progressed humanity for all mankind!
Love this guy james flew to moon twice and still didn't have the luck to land there. Was a part of NASA's greatest achievement though during the apollo 13 disaster.
I have some puzzlement about certain Apollo anomalies, but that being said, I could listen to Capt Lovell for literally days at a time. What a man.
Any puzzlement about Apollo "anomalies" is _very_ easy to clear up. That's because there are no Apollo anomalies.
@@marshallcello1128 of course there are anomalies. The camera film should've been next to useless in the vacuum of space. Gaffer tape shouldn't work in a vacuum. The Van Allen belts are STILL a massive problem for cis-lunar travel for humans, 50 years later, apparently not for Apollo in their tin cans though. Thats just a few.
@@garymck5181 obviously the film wasn't useless, as there are numerous photos from the Apollo missions (& others). Gaffers tape did indeed work in a vacuum (why wouldn't it)? The Van Allen Belts were definitely a a problem, however it was one that was surmounted. The Apollo missions traversed them very quickly, and indeed it was determined that all of the astronauts suffered heart damage to varying degrees (whether that was caused specifically by the radiation in the belts or overall exposure over the course of the respective missions is a detail that may not be known). Jim Lovell, John Young, and Gene Cernan all flew to the Moon twice; Lovell is still with us aged 93, so he appears to have weathered it well. The Artemis spacecraft had to do tests in 2014 in the belts because of its mission parameters - and the equipment on board - which is quite different than that aboard Apollo. It passed with flying colours that year and is good to go. It's worth mentioning that Dr James Van Allen, for whom the belts are named, was a _consultant_ for the Apollo program in the early 1960s.
One thing to take into account when considering "anomalies" is their origin. There have been many, many missions to the Moon over the past nearly 60 years. Russia, the European Space Agency, India, Japan, Israel and China (the latter of whom recently brought back rocks from the Moon). Thousands upon thousands of scientists and engineers have made - and continue to make - those missions happen. And a lot of them have studied the crap out of Apollo (ever notice how similar other countries' landers are to Apollo's LEMs? There's a reason for that). Anyway, of those thousands of people, over several decades, not one of them has ever come forward to question the veracity of the Apollo record. The people who have done so are never scientists. Bill Kaysing was a furniture maker and a writer who held a bachelor of arts degree. Bart Sibrel ("A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon") is a filmmaker who drove taxi. You can find plenty of support for Apollo hoax theories on youtube, but the same does not hold true for the real world. Go into the science department of any university in the world and try and find someone - in any discipline - who subscribes to the notion that Apollo has "anomalies." You won't find them. The reason is that when things are 100% provable scientifically, it's literally impossible to lie about them. And Apollo really is that provable.
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"The camera film should've been next to useless in the vacuum of space."
== Yet, not a single film manufacturer agrees with you. Why didn't Kodak realize their film wouldn't work? Why didn't any of Kodak's competitors point out that Kodak was participating in a "fraud"? Why can you put a camera into a vacuum chamber, and it works fine?
"Gaffer tape shouldn't work in a vacuum."
== Says who? Conspiracy videos? Most types of glue will work in space, whether you want to believe it or not. Some glues might not. But, let's get real here, the engineers know which ones worked, and which ones didn't.
"The Van Allen belts are STILL a massive problem for cis-lunar travel for humans"
== Only if they stay in them a long time. During Apollo, they avoided the worst parts of the belts (except Apollo 14, which went right through the middle of them). And, they were going so fast that the exposure time for the inner belt was only about 15 minutes (that's the worst of the belts). Modern missions avoid them because modern missions last weeks/months, or sometimes even over a year. James Van Allen calculated that it would take about a week in the worst belt before getting a fatal exposure, and that Apollo astronauts would get less than 1% of a fatal dose. What do you know that James Van Allen didn't know?
"Thats just a few."
== Yeah, sorry, but your favorite conspiracy videos are just plain wrong. Those videos only exist BECAUSE they are wrong. If they had anything to offer that could stand up to scrutiny, it wouldn't be in a conspiracy video, it would be enduring the rigors of the scientific method. They make videos to AVOID the scientific method. Every claim they make falls apart instantly under scrutiny.
@@garymck5181 There are no anomalies, there is just some stuff you don’t understand.
People like you puzzle me: There is some piece of reality you don’t understand and immediately you blame reality.
Are you an astronaut? A rocket scientist? A expert on vacuum?
No? So why do you think your lack of understanding has any importance?
James A. Lovell, Jr. - Interviewed by Ron Stone
May 25, 1999
Houston, Texas
Even though he plays it down, I have to wonder how badly missing out on walking on the moon eats at him. If I were so close to such an achievement and lost it through no fault of my own, I would be pretty disappointed.
A great actor and fiction storyteller!
Try to keep up…or just go back to your cave!!!
You're not really very bright are you.
i wish i had jim lovell to follow me around all day reminding me to take it easy, pay attention to what I'm doing, it's going to be okay... &c
Lovell really deserved to walk on the moon, he and John Young personified the Right Stuff of the era.
I love rockets too, Captain Lovell.
this definitely wasnt what i expected
Are fuel cells even used much any more on spacecraft? RTGs have advanced a lot, and of course solar cells have improved to an insane degree. And both seem much safer. Has the time of the fuel cell come and gone for space?
Can do anything guy....all I remember was the landing.
Pressure and gas mix is a problem with no easy solution. An idea comes to my mind. I'm sure it was considered, but no idea why it wouldn't work. Why not just build a containment building, just slightly bigger than the CM in every direction, put the CM in it, and pressurize that containment to about 4 psi of normal air mixture? Pressurize the CM to a little more than that, and it could be pure O2, just like on a real flight. The only req't for the containment would be to hold up against the 15 psi outside. It wouldn't even have to be totally leak-proof, as it would only be ordinary air.
@1:02:08 I would of got into my space suit with the oxygen and flew the CM home…
52:18 - Apollo 13 Discussion
My grandpa went to high school with him
Kevin Costner does look like Lovell
Commander Lovell: "I don't care about crisis anymore."
Jim is right Forrest Gump Footloose and Twister plus lieutenant Dan couldnt have been better choices for the movie!
You're not really very bright are you.
@@jamesdaniels9418 You like insulting an autistic with a weird sense of humor?
@@jamesdaniels9418 insulting an autistic with a quirky sense of humor...... Do you go trip blind kids & laugh or push little old ladies into traffic?
What does the cop says to Jim Lovell ? 🤨
"What's the problem ?" 😄
We need his confidence to handle a crisis focused on our shared climate calamity and loss of human habitat here on Terra.
shame they didn’t use the back up crew for the apollo 13 moon mission and let jim kept his crew for the apollo 14 mission
As mentioned in the movie, Jim had trained for a specific landing site. Bumping to 14 wouldn't be practical.
The highest point of NASA was Apolo XI.
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Bangles - Eternal Flame (my cover version)
*_Close, your lies_* 🎬
*_Give me your stand, 'darling'_* 👨🚀🟰🤡
*_Do you feel my art beating_* 😊
*_Do you understand_* ❔
*_Do you feel their shame_* 👨🚀👨🚀👨🚀
*_'em? high?_* 🌕 *_only dreaming_* 🤭
*_Is this earning an eternal blame_* 👨⚖👉👨🚀👨🚀👨🚀🟰🤥🤥🤥
*_I believe hit's meant to be, darling_* 🥇
*_I watch you when you are 'sleeping'_* ⛓🤓🌐⛓
*_You belong with me_* 🤓➡😎 🤗
*_Do you feel their shame_* 👨🚀👨🚀👨🚀
*_'em? high?_* 🌕 *_only dreaming_* 🤭
*_Or is this earning an eternal blame_* 👨⚖👉👨🚀👨🚀👨🚀🟰😈😈😈
*_Say thy name -_* 🤬
*_Son 'shines' through the drain_* 👨🚀🟰💩
*_A whole knife so 'lonely'_* 🗡
*_And then I come increase the pain_* 👨🚀🗡
*_I don't want to lose this healing_* 🎶👨🎤😟😉
Yeh sure Jim lol Have a good time in the afterlife
Mench.
Agreed
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I know where it will be possible to test this technology - in Ukraine. Against russofascist bandits.
PRIPLETALITY
Lovell is one of my heroes.