Remembering NASA pioneer Jim Lovell

Accepted into the NASA space program in 1962, Jim Levelvel made his first of four space flights in 1965 on Gemini 7. In December of ' 68, Levelville commanded the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first man spacecraft to orbit the moon. The crew famously reading from the book of Genesis.In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. To me, Apollo 8 was a bigger deal. Apollo 8 was the epitome, the high point of my space uh ventures.But perhaps it was as commander of the ill- fated Apollo 13 that level ...