The silent center of a tabloid hurricane, Jennifer Garner is finally speaking out. With the lead in this months Miracles from Heaven, she talks about breaking up. Castcredits plus additional information about the film. AmericasSweethearts2001720pEsubBluRayDualAudioEnglishHindiGOPISAHI.mkv_snapshot_00.16.49_2017.07.01_08.42.07.jpg' alt='America`S Sweethearts Full Movie In English' title='America`S Sweethearts Full Movie In English' />Jim Lovell Wikipedia. James Arthur Lovell Jr. March 2. 5, 1. 92. NASAastronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 1. Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control. Lovell was also the command module pilot of Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to enter lunar orbit. He is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is one of only 2. Love Birds Full Movie Online Free on this page. Moon, the first of only three people to fly to the Moon twice, and the only one to have flown there twice without making a landing. Lovell was also the first person to fly in space four times. Early life. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1. Lovell was the only child of his mother Blanche, who was of Czech descent, and his father, who died in a car accident in 1. For about two years, he and his mother resided with a relative in Terre Haute, Indiana. His mother then moved them to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Juneau High School and became an Eagle Scout. As a child, Lovell was interested in rocketry, and built flying models. From the fall of 1. University of WisconsinMadison for two years under the Flying Midshipman program, where he joined the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity. While Lovell was attending pre flight training in the summer of 1. Navy was beginning to make cutbacks in the program and cadets were under a great deal of pressure to transfer out. There were even worries that some or most of the pilots that graduated wouldnt have pilot billets to fill. This threat persisted until the later outbreak of the Korean War in 1. He applied and was accepted to attend the United States Naval Academy in the fall of 1. He attended Annapolis for the full four years, graduating as an Ensign in the spring of 1. B. S. degree. He then went to flight training at NAS Pensacola from October 1. February 1. 95. 4. Jim and Marilyn Lovell in 2. Marriage and family. He married Marilyn Lillie Gerlach b. July 1. 1, 1. 93. Lillie ne Nordrum 1. Carl Gerlach. The two were high school sweethearts at Juneau High School in Milwaukee. Marilyn initially was hesitant about dating Jim because he was two years older than she, but the two became inseparable after their first date. She transferred from Wisconsin State Teachers College to George Washington University in Washington D. C. so she could be near him while he was training in Annapolis. They married after his graduation from the Naval Academy on June 6, 1. They have four children Barbara born in 1. James 1. 95. 5, Susan 1. Jeffrey 1. 96. 6. Due to her husband often being absent from the home because of training and missions, Marilyn was in charge of taking care of their household and four children. Their home life during the Apollo 1. Apollo 1. 3. Actress Kathleen Quinlan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Marilyn Lovell. In 1. 99. 9 the Lovell family opened Lovells of Lake Forest, a fine dining restaurant in Lake Forest, Illinois. The restaurant displays many artifacts from Lovells time with NASA, as well as from the filming of Apollo 1. His son James Jay Lovell III was the executive chef. He sold the restaurant to Jay and his wife Darice in 2. The Lovell family announced that the restaurant building and surrounding property was on the market in February 2. The restaurant closed on April 1. April 2. 2, 2. 01. United States Navy. Watch Mr. Nice Online. Upon completion of pilot training Lovell served at sea flying F2. H Banshee night fighters from 1. In January 1. 95. Naval Air Test Center now the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, also known as Pax River, along with Charles Peter Conrad and Wally Schirra. Lovell graduated first in his class. Later that year, Lovell, Conrad, and Schirra became three of 1. Project Mercury. Schirra went on to become one of the Mercury Seven, but Lovell and Conrad failed to make the cut for medical reasons Lovell because of a temporarily high bilirubin count in his blood6 and Conrad for refusing to take the second round of invasive medical tests. Lovell continued for four years at Pax River as a test pilot and instructor, using the call sign Shaky, a nickname given him by Conrad. NASA career. For NASAs first selection of astronauts, the Mercury Seven, Lovell was not chosen as a member at first. In 1. 96. 2 NASA needed a second group of astronauts for the Gemini and Apollo programs. Lovell applied again and, this time, was accepted into NASA Astronaut Group 2, The New Nine as was Conrad. Gemini program. Buzz Aldrin and Lovell on the deck of their recovery ship after Gemini 1. Lovell was selected as backup Pilot for Gemini 4, which put him in position for his first space flight three missions later, as Pilot of Gemini 7 with Command Pilot Frank Borman in December 1. The flights objective was to evaluate the effects on the crew and spacecraft from fourteen days in orbit. This flight set an endurance record of fourteen days in space, made 2. Gemini 6. A. Lovell was later scheduled to be the backup Command Pilot of Gemini 1. Gemini 9 prime crew. Elliot See and Charles Bassett, he replaced Thomas P. Stafford as backup commander of Gemini 9. A. This again positioned Lovell for his second flight and first command, of Gemini 1. November 1. 96. 6 with Pilot Buzz Aldrin. This flight had three extravehicular activities, made 5. Agena target vehicle. This mission was successful because it proved that humans can effectively work outside of the spacecraft. This mission also paved the way for the Apollo missions, and helped reach the goal of getting man on the moon by the end of the decade. Apollo program. Apollo 8. Lovell at the Command Module Guidance and Navigation station during the Apollo 8 mission. Lovell was originally chosen as Command Module Pilot on the backup crew for Apollo 9, planned as a high apogee Earth orbital test of the Lunar Module, along with Neil Armstrong as Commander and Buzz Aldrin as Lunar Module Pilot. Lovell later replaced Michael Collins as CMP on the Apollo 9 prime crew, reuniting him with his Gemini 7 commander Frank Borman, and LM pilot William Anders, when Collins needed to have surgery for a bone spur on his spine. Delays in construction of the first manned LM prevented it from being ready in time to fly on Apollo 8, planned as a low Earth orbit test. It was decided to swap the Apollo 8 and Apollo 9 prime and backup crews in the flight schedule so that the crew trained for the low orbit test could fly it as Apollo 9, when the LM would be ready. The original Apollo 9 medium Earth orbit test was replaced with a lunar orbital flight, now Apollo 8. Borman, Lovell and Anders were launched on December 2. Moon. As CM Pilot, Lovell served as the navigator, using the spacecrafts built in sextant to determine its position by measuring star positions. This information was then used to calculate required mid course corrections. The craft entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve and made a total of ten orbits, most of them circular at an altitude of approximately 7. They broadcast black and white television pictures of the lunar surface back to Earth, and Lovell took his turn with Borman and Anders in reading a passage from the Biblical creation story in the Book of Genesis. They began their return to Earth on Christmas Day with a rocket burn made on the Moons far side, out of radio contact with Earth. For this reason, the lunar orbit insertion and trans Earth injection burns were the two most tense moments of this first lunar mission. When contact was re established, Lovell was the first to announce the good news, Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus. The crew splashed down safely on Earth December 2. Apollo 1. 3. Lovell in front of the launch pad before the Apollo 1. Lovell reads newspaper account of Apollo 1. USS Iwo Jima. Lovell was backup commander of Apollo 1.