Jim Lovell remembered that after they fired their engine, "On the computer then it said words to the effect 'You are now in lunar orbit. Your orbit is 60X130 nautical miles.' We all looked out the ...

This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit.

I might get two weeks in with [Jim] Lovell though." When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration prepared to select seven astronauts for the Mercury program in the late 1950s ...