Died Thursday, August 7 at the age of 97, the American astronaut James Lovell will forever remain the man who did not work on the moon. Of course, the formula applies to billions ofHomo sapiens But no one deserves it as much as it. He is indeed the only astronaut of the Apollo program to have twice traveled towards our satellite without ever setting foot there. The first time, because the mission did not provide for it; The second, because the events decided otherwise.
James Lovell was born on March 25, 1928, in Cleveland (Ohio), an only son of a mother of Czech origin and a Canadian father who died of a car accident in 1933. The family is in embarrassment, but the young Lovell can still study engineering at the university thanks to a program of the American navy, in which he commits. He became a pilot for the Navy and, in the mid-1950s, produced more than a hundred landings on aircraft carrier. Next step: test pilot in 1958, a position which is the natural step for future astronauts.
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