“James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.”
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Apollo is slowly fading from living memory. I can remember watching it on TV and being so cross when anything else caused it not to be shown: it was inconceivable to my 7-year-old mind that anything could be more important to show than that. It still is inconceivable to me now.
In twenty or thirty years almost nobody alive will have seen them. In two hundred years historians will recognise it as the high point of human civilisation, I am sure.
Apparently the real Jim Lovell did an audio commentary for the DVD version of Apollo 13. ChatGPT says:
I need to get my hands on that.
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