Bummer. I always felt a slight connection to him. Why?
As a Boomer male, I was, of course, heavily into the space program (more so since my pop. ~800 hometown also produced John Glenn).
And besides being seriously bad ass, Capt. Lovell was, like Col. Glenn, Lt. Neil Armstrong, Orville & Wilbur Wright, and myself, from Ohio (something about Buckeyes & aviation - though I did my flying sans spacecraft.....), and he, like I, was an Eagle Scout.
And his wife shared my surname.
We shall never see his like again. And now his watch has ended.
Peter
