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Jim Lovell: The Eagle Scout That Saved Apollo 13

by Alvin Townley

Jim Lovell: Troop 60, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Jim Lovell later described the event as a “bang-whump-shudder,” and its reverberations pulsed through the spacecraft, knocking the astronauts into the walls of the cramped ship. Lovell, the mission commander, looked … Read the article