https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger en-us 2023-01-30 21:18:53 UTC 2025-10-09 15:24:23 UTC hello@padlet.com brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2533632800 2023-03-27 19:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2533632800 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2533642797 Jim Lovell, who was an Annapolis graduate and a Navy test pilot as well. He was one of the nine men to be chosen in 1962 to fly in the upcoming Gemini and Apollo programs. ]]> 2023-03-27 19:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2533642797 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537080666 Jim Lovell is rehearsing for his first trip into space in the Gemini Stimulator in 1965

Quote #1 - "In the right-hand seat of a Gemini simulator in 1965, Lovell rehearses for his first trip into space." Page 176]]> 2023-03-29 17:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537080666 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537086552 Jim Lovell and his partner, Commander Frank Borman set a record of space endurance by being sealed inside Gemini 7 for two weeks straight. They also achieved the first-ever randevous.]]> 2023-03-29 17:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537086552 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537189777 In November 1966, Jim was back in the Gemini 12 but in the commanders seat going back into space. He was in orbit for five days with Buzz Aldrin who was in the right seat.

Quote #2 - "For this fight, Lovell was in the left-hand seat, the commander's seat; Buzz Aldrin was in the right." Page 177]]> 2023-03-29 18:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537189777 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537198018 Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin are carrying out their final flight of the ten-mission Gemini series. The aircraft that was used is called the "Wasp."

Quote #3 - "Lovell and Aldrin aboard the aircraft carrier Wasp after the splashdown of Gemini 12, the final flight in the ten-mission Gemini series." Page 177]]> 2023-03-29 18:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537198018 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537204262 Mercury, Gemini veteran Gus Grissom, Gemini veteran Ed White, and rookie pilot Roger Chaffee were chosen for the first Apollo mission.

Quote #4 - "It was a mission they would never get to fly." Page 178]]> 2023-03-29 18:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537204262 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537209948 On January 27, 1967, a fire started in the Apollo 1 spacecraft during one of their rehearsals. This fire caused the temperatures in the cockpit to go over 1,400 degrees. This fire killed White, Chaffee, and Grissom.

Quote #5 - "The temperature inside the cockpit was thought to have climbed to over 1,400 degrees." Page 178]]> 2023-03-29 19:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537209948 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537215287 Not even 2 years after the fire in Apollo 1, Jim Lovell, Bill Anders, and Frank Borman were chosen to fly the Apollo 8. This was the first mission of human beings being able to orbit the moon.

Quote #6 - "When the mission was over, all three astronauts were named Time Magazine's Men of the year." Page 179]]> 2023-03-29 19:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537215287 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537216579 Jim Lovells wife and three children are watching the Saturn 5 Booster sending the Apollo 8 crew into orbit towards the moon. 

Quote #7 - "Marilyn Lovell and three of her children watch as the Saturn 5 booster leaves the ground on December 21, 1968, launching the crew of Apollo 7 toward the moon." Page 179]]> 2023-03-29 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537216579 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537227732 The Apollo 8 was still orbiting the moon on Christmas Day while someone rolls up to the Lovells' house to deliver a card from, " the Man on the Moon." 

Quote #8 - "Later that day, Marilyn took Jeffrey, Susan, Barbara, and Jay to church, wearing her min in the mild Houston weather." Page 179]]> 2023-03-29 19:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537227732 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537230570 Fred Haise, a rookie astronaut and leading candidate for one of the lunar landing missions is practicing retrieving important samples on a moon-like patch of ground at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.]]> 2023-03-29 19:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2537230570 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538729676 Jim Lovells fourth and final trip to space was the Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission. He is answering reporters' questions after test-piloting the training vehicle.

Quote #9 - "At Ellington Air Force Base in Houston he answers reporters' questions after test-piloting the lunar landing training vehicle."]]> 2023-03-30 17:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538729676 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538732906 Jack Swigert the Apollo 13's backup command module pilot was promoted to the prime crew when a main pilot Ken Mattingly got German measles. 

Quote #10 - "The flight plan called for Swigert to remain in lunar orbit while his crewmates descended to the surface.]]> 2023-03-30 17:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538732906 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538735081 Apollo 13's target on the moon was the Fra Mauro highlands near the western edge of the moon. Jim Lovell at home is looking at the moon's surface with his wife and kids for familiarity. ]]> 2023-03-30 17:23:16 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538735081 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538738789 At 8:24 in the evening of April 13, 1970, the Apollo 13 crew began its last TV transmission to Earth. Only forty-three minutes later one of the oxygen tanks exploded. ]]> 2023-03-30 17:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538738789 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538742483 Deke Slayton has a makeshift lithium hydroxide air filter that the Apollo 13 crew has to build to filter poisonous carbon dioxide out of their spacecraft cockpit in order to survive.]]> 2023-03-30 17:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538742483 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538827972 A priest, Father Donald Raish, leads Jim Lovells wife and 8 other astronaut wives and friends in a communion at Jim Lovells home. ]]> 2023-03-30 18:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538827972 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538834075 In Jim Lovells house, the first three men on the moon watch Tv coverage of Apollo 13 with the family of the man who would have been the fifth man.]]> 2023-03-30 18:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538834075 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538839642 About five hours before splashing down into the water, the crew of Apollo 13 jettisoned their service module for the first time and saw how much damage was caused by the exploding oxygen tank. A whole external panel was blasted away. Their ship was still up right because of the flotation balloons and inflatable collars.]]> 2023-03-30 18:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538839642 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538843952 One navy man welcomes another as Lovell and brings his crew aboard a much larger ship. Lovell is now in Hawaii saluting for the National Anthem after Richard Nixon awarded him and his crew the Medal of Freedom. The Apollo 13 crew also had a tickertape parade celebrated for them in Chicago unplanned because of their successful mission.]]> 2023-03-30 18:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538843952 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538847180 Cuban Missile Crisis]]> 2023-03-30 18:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538847180 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538848332 Malcom X Assassination ]]> 2023-03-30 18:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538848332 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538850404 World Fair]]> 2023-03-30 18:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538850404 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538851922 MLK Assassination ]]> 2023-03-30 19:00:42 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538851922 brooknol0001 https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538853896 First aircraft to study Mercury]]> 2023-03-30 19:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/brooknol0001/pxsrwpj081e3fpve/wish/2538853896