RIP CAPT James Lovell, USN, Apollo 8 & 13

[MikeD]

Jim Lovell of Apollo 8 & 13 fame passed today at 97. Lovell’s passing leaves 6 remaining living Apollo program astronauts: David Scott, Russ Schweikart, Buzz Aldrin, Fred Haise, Charles Duke, and Harrison Schmidt.

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies at age 97

Astronaut Jim Lovell has died, NASA announced.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Wardogg]

We lose another great one.

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies at age 97

Astronaut Jim Lovell has died, NASA announced.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[knot4u]

Jim Lovell of Apollo 8 & 13 fame passed today at 97. Lovell’s passing leaves 6 remaining living Apollo program astronauts: David Scott, Russ Schweikart, Buzz Aldrin, Fred Haise, Charles Duke, and Harrison Schmidt.

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies at age 97

Astronaut Jim Lovell has died, NASA announced.

www.cbsnews.com

Very few people give a • about these things anymore. Thanks for taking the time to remember him. I'm unsure but it seems like the zeitgeist thinks we're just going to decide to return to the moon because they want it to happen and it'll be easy. At the same time they've decided SpaceX is run by an evil supervillain and Teslas are an easy opportunity for some sort of online social media virtue signaling credibility. If they destroy the only US company that actually offers a commute to the ISS how do they ever expect to progress to the moon. I've heard they want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. That all sounds like a fun experiment, is NASA going to do it or will SpaceX make that happen?

 

[WacoFan]

Very few people give a • about these things anymore. Thanks for taking the time to remember him. I'm unsure but it seems like the zeitgeist thinks we're just going to decide to return to the moon because they want it to happen and it'll be easy. At the same time they've decided SpaceX is run by an evil supervillain and Teslas are an easy opportunity for some sort of online social media virtue signaling credibility. If they destroy the only US company that actually offers a commute to the ISS how do they ever expect to progress to the moon. I've heard they want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. That all sounds like a fun experiment, is NASA going to do it or will SpaceX make that happen?

Sean Duffy, Interim head of NASA and other Real World MTV Reality TV alumnis will make it happen.

I hope personally it is NASA. The idea of privatizing the nations only way to space was among the most stupid to ever be considered, much less acted upon.