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Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97 | Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.
Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.
In a statement released Friday, the Lovell family highlighted his “amazing life and career accomplishments” and his “legendary leadership in pioneering human space flight.” Lovell was selected to join NASA in 1962 as part of the agency’s second round of astronauts — a group that included Neil Armstrong, Charles “Pete” Conrad, John Young and others that were nicknamed the “Next Nine.” The explosion crippled the command module, and the astronauts faced an extreme shortage of water and electrical power, along with dangerously high levels of carbon dioxide, according to NASA.
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