He developed an early fascination with rocketry and aviation, building and launching his own rockets.
James Arthur “Jim” Lovell Jr. was born on March 25, 1928, in Cleveland, Ohio, to James Lovell Sr., a furnace salesman, and Blanche née Masek. After his father’s death in a car accident when Lovell was five, he and his mother moved briefly to Indiana before settling in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
A career Air Force officer from 1950, his assignments included service as a fighter pilot, an operational pilot and instructor, an experimental test pilot and an assistant professor of thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at West Point.
A hero of the American Space Odyssey, Frank Borman led the first team of American
astronauts to circle the moon, extending man’s horizons into space. Frank Frederick Borman II was born on March 14, 1928, at 2162 West 11th Avenue in Gary, Indiana, USA.
