They Shot for the Moon

Jim Lovell is probably best known as the man who didn't land. On his first trip to the moon aboard Apollo IIX, which was scheduled as an orbit and return mission, Lovell beamed a Christmas message back from lunar orbit. Reading from the book of Genesis, Christmas, 1968, he along with Frank Borman and Bill Anders delivered a message of hope to a troubled world while they orbited 60 miles above the lunar surface. His second trip was documented in the movie Apollo XIII. When an oxygen tank exploded, the journey of Apollo XIII became less an adventure of discovery and more of a fight for survival.