Jim Lovel, who guided the Apollo 13 safely on Earth, died at the age of 97

In 1970 in, Apollo 1 Mission Mission was safely guided by Astronaut Jim Laval at the age of aged aged.

Hundreds of thousands of miles from the earth, the space exploded, after trying to get down on the moon, he “made the potential tragedy successful.”

Laval and two other astronauts have thrown down in the Pacific Ocean, millions of people are watching on television, this moment has become the most prestigious in the history of space travel.

Lovel was the first man to go to the moon twice, part of the Apollo 8 mission.

Acting NASA chief Sain Dafi said Lovel helped the US space program “creating a historic way”.

In a statement, the family members of the Lovella have said: “We will lose his unfaithful optimism, his humor, and the way he has done impossible to each of us. He was really a kind.”

On a Saturday, a 16 -year -old boy took a heavy, three feet tube in the middle of a large ground in Wisconsin.

He convinced his science teachers to help make a temporary rocket. Anyway, he managed to get a hand on ganapoder – potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal ingredients.

He pulled the welder’s helmet for protection. He packed it with a powder, attacked the match and fled like hell.

The rocket grows 80 feet in the air and exploded. Had the chemical been packed a little differently, it would have been cut into pieces.

For Jim Lovel, this was more than a child lark.

The American hero will be when achieving his dream of becoming a rocket scientific. But it was not going to be easy.

James Arthur Laval Jr. was born on March 25, 1928 – a year after Charles Lindberg made a historic trip beyond Atlantic.

“Dynasore or Airplen also either children,” he said. “I was the boy of a lot of aircraft.”

But when he was five years old, his father’s car died in an accident.

His mother, blanches, all hours worked – pushing the family in clothes and food. The university was beyond their financial reach.

The North American Navy belonged to, who was hungry for a new pilot after World War II. This rocket was not creating but at least it includes flying it.

While training as a soldier pilot, Lovely signed up at an event at the expense of the military.

Two years later, he hoping to work with his dear rockets, gambling and switched at the Navy Academy Cadmi in Annapolis on Chasapik Bay.

It was a lucky decision.

A few months later, the Korean War began and former colleague pilot was sent to South East Asia. Many did not complete their education.

Anapolis and girlfriends were banned from the wedding frustration. The Navy does not want to waste their time on such trivial things.

But Lovel was a dear. Merlin Gerar was a high school girl who asked a shy Prom.

Women were not allowed on campus and the outer trip was limited to 45 minutes. Somehow the relationship was read.

In 195 2, a few hours after the degree, Anisig Laval, a new commission, married her.

In 2023, they will be together for more than 70 years from the death of Merlin.

He did everything he could to promote his love on the rocket.

His dissertation in the Navy Academy Caddy was not heard on the subject of a liquid-fuel engine. After the degree, he expected experts in this leading new technology.

But the Navy had other ideas.

Lavell was appointed at the Ban Banchi Jets Flying Bandi Jets at night. It was just a white-unclean, high-wire business fit for Daredevils. But for the lovele, that was not enough.

In 1958, he applied to NASA.

Project Mercury was an attempt to keep the United States in the earth’s orbit. Jim Lovel was one of the 110 test pilots, considered for choice, but the temporary condition of the liver was given to its opportunities.

Four years later he tried again.

On June 19, 62, NASA announced its “new nine” after harassing medical tests. President Kennedy promises to put American boots on the moon.

It was the high -rise group of men who had ever had a gathering. Among them, Neil Armstrong, John Young and his childhood dreams, gym lovele are complete.

Three years later he was ready.

His first trip in space was in two-man Gemini 7. Lovel and co-operative astronaut Frank Borman ate and condemned a steak-end-and-aid breakfast.

Their goals: to find out if men can live in space for two weeks. If not, the moon was out of reach.

Complete the end of the endurance, the next flight space of the love was in the command of Gemini 12 along with Ruki, Buzz Aldrin.

At this time, they proved that the man could work outside the space. Aldrin spent five hours photographing star fields, miracles in zero.

Now for the moon.

The crew of Apollo 8 will be the first to travel beyond the lower earth’s orbit and the second will enter into a bridge of gravity body.

It was still the most dangerous mission of NASA.

Shani V Rocket, who out of Laval, Borman and William Anders at 25,000 miles per hour, was three times larger than anything that appeared in the Gemini program.

As a navigator, Lovel took a sexant to take a star readings with him – if the computer failed and they had to find their own way.

They made it for eight and a half hours after the tech-off.

The engine firing and the Apollo was quietly slipped behind the 8 moon. The radio signal of the mission control fell and the men then heard a cockel in their headset as the failure.

Spellbound astronauts pinned themselves to the windows, looking at the distant side of the nearest Akashian neighbor. And then, from the horizon that moves forward, an incredible view.

“Meaning,” laughing in Borman.

“Get a camera, quick,” said Lovel.

It was Christmas Ev 1968.

There was a civil unrest in Vietnam abroad and home. But at that moment it seems that humanity is united.

The astronauts saw it – the delicate and beautiful – the people of the world saw their planets.

The basis of many of the great religions in the world, reads the love of the people of the earth from the book of origin.

“And God called Light Day, and he called the darkness of the night. And it was the first day in the evening and the morning.”

This was an image for him who changed our world forever. He put his thumb against the window, and the whole world disappeared. It was the most running experience of his life.

As soon as the spacecraft emerged from the darkness, Laval first announced good news. “Please advise,” Radio said while returning to life, “There is Santa Claus.”

At that moment, 239,000 miles away, a man in the Blue Rolls Royce pulled out of the house of Houston.

He camped out of dozens of journalists and gave a box to Merlin.

She opened the star-patored tissue paper and pulled out a mink jacket. “Happy Christmas,” the card with it said, “And the love of the moon man.”

They went as a astronaut and the celebrity came down. The earth’s people had followed every movement of TV.

Ticker tape parade, Congress Honors and a place on the home of the time magazine. And they did not even step on the moon.

This honor, of course, went to Neil Armstrong and Baza Aldrin.

A year later, Kennedy’s dream was successful. A small step was taken and mankind took a huge leap. Nine new people had done their job.

On April 29, 1970. Fortunately, the crew of Apollo 13 did not trust the unfortunate number.

Lovel, Jack Swigraint and Fred Hedge were men of science – highly trained and determination of following Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface of the moon. But things became badly wrong.

They were over 200,000 miles on earth and when they showed low pressure in the hydrogen tank, their attention was closed. Super cold gas layers need to be stirred to stop to settle.

Swigart flicks the switch. This should be a regular process, but the command module, the oddis, the tremors were cut. Oxygen was under pressure and the power closed.

“I believe we have a problem here,” said Swigger. Lovel had to tell a message to a stunned mission control: “Houston, we have a problem.”

It was the biggest underlined so far. The driver was found in a big crisis – their craft was disabled due to a dramatic explosion.

Hedge and Lovel worked strictly to boot the moon module, Aquarius.

It should not be used until it comes to the moon. It had no heat shield, so it could not be used to re -enter the earth’s atmosphere. But they can keep them alive until they come there.

The world stopped breathing and saw.

The second second was brought together by Jim Lovel as one. For the first time for Quarris, the second will be a witness to his battle to survive.

“Four days,” Merlin said, “I didn’t know if I was a wife or a widow.”

Temperatures were freezing, food and water rations were done. It was a few days before they returned to the coast of the earth’s atmosphere. They climbed back from Odyssey and prayed that the heat shield was not damaged.

Radio peace with re -entry went far beyond normal. Millions of people saw millions on TV, many were convinced that everything was lost.

After six painful minutes, the sound of Jack Swigart was cut quietly.

The team on the ground stopped their breath until the parachute was deployed and the driver’s force was safely down.

Mission was the biggest failure of NASA and without question, its excellent hour.

Retired from the Navy in the Love 3 333 and chose a quiet life working in the Bay-Houston Towing Company, giving speeches, and president of the National Eagle Scout Association.

Los Moon: The book, The Perels Voice of Apollo 13, became a famous film of 1995 as Jim Lovel.

For the film, the director asked him to dress as an admiral. It was for the cameo scene, when the sail was rescued from the sea, shaking hands with Hanx.

But the old American hero did not have it.

Jim Lovel went to the moon twice, he saw in the ear and avoided the cold death in the sky – and he did not see any reason to lie to his resume.

He pulled out his old navy uniforms, washed down and put it for the cameo look.

“I retired as a captain,” he insisted, “and I am a captain.”