Jim Lovell

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1928 age 0

   Born

2. 1976 age 48

   CreditThe Man Who Fell to Earth

3. 1995 age 67

   CreditApollo 13

   CreditApollo 13screenwriter

4. 2025 age 97

   Died

• DADavid Andrews2 titles
• FBFrank Borman2 titles
• THTom Hanks1 title
• GSGary Sinise1 title
• GBGeoffrey Blake1 title
• JHJames Horner1 title
• BPBill Paxton1 title
• MBMatt Battaglia1 title
• MMMarc McClure1 title
• DCDean Cundey1 title

• Spouse

  • MLMarilyn Lovell

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:NASAPublic domain

• We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.

  Jim Lovell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You have to remember we brought back a picture of the Earth as it is 240,000 miles away. And the fact is, it gives you a different perspective of the Earth when you see it as three-dimensional between the sun and the moon, and you begin to realize how small and how significant the body is. … When I put my thumb up to the window I could completely hide it, and then I realized that behind my thumb that I'm hiding this Earth, and there are about 6 billion people that are all striving to live there. <br /> You have to really kind of think about our own existence here in the universe, … You realize that people often say, "I hope to go to heaven when I die." In reality, if you think about it, you go to heaven when you're born. <br /> You arrive on a planet that has the proper mass, has the gravity to contain water and an atmosphere, which are the very essentials for life … And you arrive on this planet that's orbiting a star just at the right distance — not too far to be too cold, or too clo

  Jim Lovell, CC BY-SA 4.0