Recent Jim Lovell Commentaries

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April 13, 1970
An explosion aboard Apollo 13 instantly transformed a routine mission into a fight for survival. With oxygen leaking into space and power systems failing, three astronauts were stranded more than 200,000 miles from Earth. At the center of that crisis stood mission commander Jim Lovell. There was no time for blame and no room for ego. Lovell focused on one...
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