Rest in peace to Captain Jim Lovell, one of the finest Americans our nation has ever produced. > Naval Academy graduate and military test pilot > First person to fly into space four times > 14 days in orbit as part of Gemini 7 > Captain of Gemini 12 (Buzz Aldrin served as pilot) > Command module pilot for Apollo 8, the first manned mission to ever orbit the moon; read from the book of Genesis during a live radio broadcast on Christmas Eve > Commander of Apollo 13 mission; rationed water, endured freezing temperatures, improvised a CO2 scrubber using cardboard and duct tape, and hand-calculated course corrections with a slide rule to get the crew back to Earth safely A hero of a man, and a legend of an American. May our nation be forever grateful.