James Arthur Jim Lovell Jr. (born March 25 1928) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control. Lovell was also the command module pilot of Apollo 8 the first Apollo mission to enter lunar orbit.
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