Remembering Jim Lovell: Milwaukee’s ‘imperturbable, unflappable’ astronaut

Astronauts in the Gemini and Apollo space missions had a common saying for Milwaukee astronaut and Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell.

“If you can’t get along with Jim Lovell, you can’t get along with anyone,” said Jeffrey Kluger, editor at large at Time Magazine and coauthor of “Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13.”

Kluger wrote a Lovell tribute for Time earlier this month, dubbing him Earth’s “most down-to-earth astronaut.”…

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