Jim Lovell
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"James Arthur "Jim" Lovell, Jr.", is a former NASA astronaut and a retired Captain (naval)/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 Apollo Command/Service Module/command module pilot of Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to enter lunar orbit. Lovell is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is one of only List of Apollo astronauts#Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon without landing/24 people to have flown to the Moon, the first of only three people to fly to the Moon twice, and the only one to have flown there twice without making a Moon landing/landing. Lovell was also the first person to fly in space four times.

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Back in those days, going to the moon, geology was important, ... But how do we train pilots to be geologists? We concentrated on observing, not the analytical parts of the rocks.

The training in those days was rather ad hoc because the people running NASA were basically engineers.

I'm so proud of what they've done.

Instead of starting the eradication on the outskirts and forcing the rats in they bombed the garden and moved them out of the area and forced them here. I understand the pressure they were under to take care of the rats and open the school but they didn't consider anything else besides their own problem.

That training really helped us on the second time around, ... It was one of those acts of fate.

We hadn't seen any rats or evidence of rats until the school district started the eradication program, and then we started to see evidence of the rats moving across the fence line.

A lot of stuff, we had to learn ourselves. Training became some school work in those areas we were not familiar with, like orbital mechanics, the extensive gyroscopic systems for control of the vehicle.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.