Thu, Apr 02, 2009
Four-Time Astronaut Will Donate Award To Naval Museum
NASA will honor astronaut James "Jim" Lovell, Jr., with the
presentation of an Ambassador of Exploration Award for his
contributions to the US space program. During a ceremony Friday,
April 3, Lovell will accept the award at the Patuxent River Naval
Air Museum in Lexington Park, MD and present it to the museum for
display.
NASA is giving the Ambassador of Exploration Award to the first
generation of explorers in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space
programs for realizing America's goal of going to the moon. The
award is a moon rock encased in Lucite, mounted for public display.
The rock is part of the 842 pounds of lunar samples collected
during six Apollo expeditions from 1969 to 1972.
Lovell was born in Cleveland and received his bachelor's degree
from the United States Naval Academy in 1952. He spent four years
as a test pilot at the Naval Air Test Center, now the Patuxent
River Naval Air Station. Lovell was the pilot for the Gemini 7
mission and the command pilot for Gemini 12. He and fellow crewmen,
Frank Borman and William A. Anders, became the first humans to
leave the Earth's gravitational influence and travel to the moon
during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.
On Lovell's fourth mission, he was the commander of the infamous
Apollo 13 mission... and, along with his crewmen and with more than
a little help from controllers, ably guided the stricken spacecraft
back to a safe splashdown on Earth.
Beginning at noon EDT Thursday, NASA Television will air a video
file with highlights from Lovell's missions. That link is available
at the first FMI link below.
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