In a photo published exclusively with PEOPLE, a two-year-old Jack Black is seen in the arms of his mother, Judith Love Cohen. “This is an old scrapbook that Judy had that's now Jack's.

“Judith Love Cohen helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts,” according to the June 29 post. It went on to recount the day Black was born.

JACK BLACK'S mum Judith Love Cohen helped to save astronauts on Apollo 13 by establishing a system to do so on the day she gave birth to the actor. By Holly Fleet 17:22, Fri, Jul 2, 2021 | UPDATED ...

This is Judith Love Cohen, who helped rescue the Apollo 13 astronauts. While working on an important problem, she went to work in labor. She took a printout of the problem to the maternity ward.

Jack Black might be a big name in showbiz, but his parents, Judith Love Cohen and Thomas William Black, were successful in their own right. Both of his parents served as aerospace engineers and worked ...