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JIM LOVELL


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If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it.

Blanch Lovell

Played by Jean Speegle Howard (yes, Ron Howard’s mother) in the 1995 movie Apollo 13. The scene has Commander Jim Lovell’s mum being told there’s been an accident on the mission to the Moon. The line was written by an uncredited John Sayles.

Blanch Lovell

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

Jim Lovell

In reply to Jack Lousma.

It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the — into the space.

Jim Lovell

Describing the Apollo 13 situation to Houston.

Mission Control during Apollo 13

Apollo 13 towing invoiceAfter the Apollo 13 recovery, Grumman Aerospace Corporation sent a spoof invoice to North American Rockwell for towing the rest of Apollo 13 around the Moon and home to Earth.

Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here of the Moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big blackness of space.

Jim Lovell

Live Apollo 8 lunar-orbit television broadcast, Christmas Eve, 24 December 1968. Frank is Frank Borman. Many quote sites use "the big vastness of space" but the NASA transcript has "big blackness of space".

We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you.

In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep…

…And God saw that it was good.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.

Flight crew of Apollo 8

Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman, Live Apollo 8 Christmas Eve television broadcast, lunar orbit, 24 December 1968. The Apollo Flight Journal transcript gives Anders’ opening at 086:06:40, then Anders reading Genesis 1:1–4, Lovell taking over at 086:07:29, and Borman taking the final verses and closing at 086:08:07




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