Like many, I was surprised to hear of the passing of Jim Lovell yesterday, truly one of the greatest space pioneers and a real hero. Like many of us growing up in the '50s-'70s, the space race and all that it entailed, was thrilling to watch and to follow and James Lovell played a significant role during that era.
The autograph: my sister worked with his sister and when he came home to Milwaukee in 1967 for his father's funeral, my sister had asked his sister for his autograph. Despite the somber occasion he made time to sign an autograph and gave it to his sister to pass along to me - on the casket companies note paper! I'm afraid the autograph is the little worse for wear after all these years but it has managed to survive. As well, he and I were graduates of the same high school in Milwaukee: Solomon Juneau Junior-Senior High School. I never knew him of course as he graduated in the 1950s, but later, during my graduation year of 1971, I saw him when he came to Juneau to talk to us about the aborted Apollo 13 mission the year prior.
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