Look at the calendar. Tomorrow’s date is 4321. That inspired me to choose today’s interview, with the man who was commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which took place 51 years ago this month.
Jim Lovell was the commander of the three-man crew, whose mission was to land on the Moon. But just two days into the mission, something went terribly wrong.
Tom Hanks, who played Jim Lovell in the movie Apollo 13, uttered the words that have become a catchphrase. But in the moment when level actually said those words, he and his crew mates were dangerously close to death.
In 1994, Jim Lovell co-authored a book about the Apollo 13 mission, and that’s when I met him.
So here now, from 1994, Jim Lovell:
Lovell celebrated his 93rd birthay last week.