The USA's Apollo program of exploration of how to get to the moon and finally land upon it mesmerised many people of the world throughout the '60s and '70s, as it did me as a young lad, but notwithstanding the immensity of that human achievement little change for humankind sprang from it.
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| Astronaut Jim Lovell (1928-2025) - RIP |
Leaving aside that thought, I wish to note the passing of astronaut Jim Lovell, a space pioneer who died as he had lived: on the dramatic edge of life where only those with "the right stuff" survive, about which a film was made. He was in the first Apollo (8) crew to orbit the moon (10 times) in 1968 and went there twice, but never stood on the moon because of his "claim to fame" which was being in the crew of the ill-fated, but ultimately saved Apollo 13. Their emergency gripped the world's media and was later recorded in the hit film, "Apollo13".
The passing of fellow Apollo 8 crew member Bill Anders is here.
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