Surviving The Impossible | The Life Of Jim Lovell | Apollo 13: "Houston, we've had a problem"

Jim Lovell's biography. He part of the crew that survived the Apollo 13 mission, and is famous for the phrase: "Houston, we've had a problem". One of NASA's finest moments, recovering from an impossible mission, saving the crew of Apollo 13. As of August 2023, he is 95 years old. Join this channel to support it:    / @dronescapes   Click the link to watch more aircraft, heroes, and their stories, and missions:    / @dronescapes   Jim Lovell, (James Arthur Lovell, Jr)., was born March 25, 1928, in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.), U.S. astronaut of the Gemini and Apollo space programs, and commander of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 flight to the Moon in 1970. Lovell, a graduate (1952) of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, became a test pilot. He was serving as a flight instructor and safety officer at the time (1963) he was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the crewed space program. Lovell accompanied Frank Borman on the record-breaking 14-day flight of Gemini 7. Launched December 4, 1965, Gemini 7 was joined in space by Gemini 6, launched 11 days later and crewed by Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and Thomas P. Stafford, for the first successful space rendezvous. Lovell joined Edwin E. (“Buzz”) Aldrin for the last flight of the Gemini series, Gemini 12, which was launched on November 11, 1966, and remained in orbit for four days. Apollo 8 was launched on December 21, 1968, and carried Lovell, Borman, and William Anders on the first crewed flight around the Moon. This flight was the first of three preparatory to the Moon landing of Apollo 11. Apollo 13, with astronauts Fred W. Haise, John L. Swigert, Jr., and Lovell aboard, lifted off on April 11, 1970, headed for the Fra Mauro Hills on the Moon. On April 13, approximately 205,000 miles (330,000 km) from Earth, an explosion ruptured an oxygen tank in the service module. The resulting shortage of power and oxygen forced the abandonment of the Moon mission. Apollo 13’s crew changed course to swing once around the Moon and then return to Earth. With the successful return of Apollo 13 on April 17, Lovell had completed more than 715 hours of space travel. Lovell remained in NASA, and in 1971 he became a deputy director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He retired from the Navy and the space program in 1973 but remained in Houston as a corporation executive until his retirement in 1991. He later moved to Illinois and opened a successful restaurant in Lake Forest. Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) failed two days into the mission. The crew instead looped around the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory and returned safely to Earth on April 17. The mission was commanded by Jim Lovell, with Jack Swigert as command module (CM) pilot and Fred Haise as Lunar Module (LM) pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for Ken Mattingly, who was grounded after exposure to rubella. A routine stir of an oxygen tank ignited damaged wire insulation inside it, causing an explosion that vented the contents of both of the SM's oxygen tanks to space. Without oxygen, needed for breathing and generating electric power, the SM's propulsion and life support systems could not operate. The CM's systems had to be shut down to conserve its remaining resources for reentry, forcing the crew to transfer to the LM as a lifeboat. With the lunar landing canceled, mission controllers worked to bring the crew home alive.