Flight record
4 flights on padside's record, flying from 1965 to 1970.
4Flights
29d 19hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
James Arthur Lovell Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, Naval Aviator, and retired Navy captain. Lovell is known for being the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth through the efforts of the crew and mission control. In addition to being part of the Apollo 13 crew, Lovell was the command module pilot of Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to enter lunar orbit.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Flights
- Saturn V | Apollo 13April 11, 1970 · 19:13 UTC
- Saturn V | Apollo 8December 21, 1968
- Titan II GLV | Gemini XIINovember 11, 1966 · 20:46 UTC
- Titan II GLV | Gemini VIIDecember 4, 1965
Born 1928-03-25 · died 2025-08-07