Saturday, February 29, 2020

Happy birthday, astronaut Jack Lousma!


Jack Lousma, born February 29, 1936 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been in space twice, participating in two different projects. 

His first trip into space was aboard Skylab 3 as pilot in July-September 1973. He conducted two EVAs for a total time of 11 hours.

His second trip into space was aboard Columbia (STS-3) as commander in March 1982.

In April 1970, he was the CAPCOM recipient of the "Houston, we've had a problem" message from Apollo 13.


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