Happy 96th Birthday to Jim Lovell! 🚀Gemini VII (world's first space rendezvous) 🚀Gemini XII 🚀Apollo 8 (first to escape Earth & orbit the Moon) 🚀Commander of Apollo 13 (image) 🚀Legend One of the images I created for the 50th anniversary. More here: bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
@AndySaunders_1 HappyBirthday Jim! Here’s an Interactive Augmented Reality tour of Gemini 7 safepic.com/Panorama/Gemin… zoom in on the center console to see the colander they wrote to mark time.
@AndySaunders_1 @poppy_northcutt 😍 gave my son your book for Christmas. He had met 6 of the 12 moonwalkers at age 12 (Spacefest Tucson) - such a special book for him to have!
@AndySaunders_1 An absolute legend. Also part of first crew to fly on a Saturn V, if I'm not mistaken.
A memento from the space collection, Jim Lovell had a problem long before Apollo 13. He wrote: “These Computer Failure Cards were instrumental in completing the rendezvous after the rendezvous radar failure on my Gemini XII mission in November, 1966.” Lovell and Aldrin were forced to take manual control to dock with the Agena Target Vehicle, relying on charts and the onboard computer instead of the radar system.
@AndySaunders_1 Absolutely. The man is a true heroic figure.
@AndySaunders_1 One of the all time legendary human beings!