After the Apollo 13 mission, Lovell was named the deputy director of science and functions at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Middle (right now, Johnson House Middle) earlier than retiring from each the house company and Navy on March 1, 1973. Lovell grew to become chief government officer of Bay-Houston Towing Firm in 1975 after which president of Fisk Phone Methods in 1977.
On January 1, 1981, Lovell joined Centel Company as group vp for enterprise communications techniques and, 10 years later, retired as government vp and a member of the corporate’s board of administrators.
For 11 years, from 1967 to 1978, Lovell served as a marketing consultant after which chairman of the Bodily Health Council (right now, the President’s Council on Sports activities, Health and Diet). He was a member of the board for a number of organizations, together with Federal Sign Company in Chicago from 1984 to 2003 and the Astronautics Company of America in Milwaukee from 1990 to 1999. He was additionally chairman of the Astronaut Scholarship Basis from 1997 to 2005.
Appearances and awards
From 1999 to 2006, Lovell helped run “Lovell’s of Lake Forest,” a restaurant that he and his household opened in Illinois. (The restaurant was then offered to Jay, Lovell’s son, however finally closed in 2015.)
In 1994, Lovell labored with Jeffrey Kluger to publish Misplaced Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was later retitled Apollo 13 after serving as the idea for the Ron Howard film.
Along with being performed by Hanks and having a cameo in Apollo 13, Lovell was additionally portrayed by Tim Daly within the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and Pablo Schreiber within the 2018 Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. Lovell additionally made a cameo look within the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, shakes fingers with President Richard Nixon after being offered with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at Hickham Air Power Base, Hawaii, in 1970.
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For his service to the US house program, Lovell was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service and Distinctive Service medals; the Congressional House Medal of Honor, and Presidential Medal of Freedom. As a member of the Gemini 7, Gemini 12, and Apollo 8 crews, Lovell was bestowed the Harmon Worldwide Trophy thrice and, along with his Apollo 8 crewmates, the Robert J. Collier and Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial trophies and was named Time Journal’s Man of the 12 months for 1968.
