Jim Lovell - Blog Posts

Hahahaha oh my.

more astronauts as vines plz! 🌟🌷

i’ll actually use vines this time instead of instead of an entire parks and rec scene lmao

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[at the beach]

[‘deke!’ is written in the sand]

gus grissom: happy birthday deke!

[camera pans to deke, who has floaties around his arms]

deke: i can't swim

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police officer: and what are your names?

deke slayton: don't tell him, gus

police officer, writing in a notebook: gus.

deke slayton: damn

gus grissom: nice going, deke

police officer: gus and deke.

gus grissom: fuCK

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frank borman: hey toss me my keys

[a printer crashes next to frank]

frank borman: … i said my keys??

jim lovell: i thought you said printer!

frank borman: why the fuck would i say printer?

Astronauts; like you and me, but way cooler

Gosh, why do Frank and Pete look like cinnamon rolls here?

Oh yep, they are cinnamon rolls!!

(4 Dec. 1965) — Fellow astronauts join the Gemini-7 prime crew for breakfast in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Merritt Island, on the day of the Gemini-7 launch. Clockwise around the table, starting lower left, are astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., Gemini-7 prime crew pilot; Walter M. Schirra Jr., Gemini-6 prime crew command pilot; Donald K. Slayton, MSC assistant director for Flight Crew Operations; Virgil I. Grissom, Gemini-6 backup crew command pilot; Charles Conrad Jr., Gemini-5 prime crew pilot; and Frank Borman, Gemini-7 prime crew command pilot. Photo credit: NASA

Introducing the New Nine, LIFE Magazine, September 28, 1962.

My favorite things about this photo, in no particular order:

Ed White’s expression

Jim and Frank. Just in general. But also that weird bald patch on Frank’s head.

HOLY SHIT LOOK AT PETE. PETE, I LOVE YOUR FACE.

The little blurbs about them on the side are totally distressing: why are they giving out these poor fellas’ heights and weights?

On that same note, why is John so goddamn heavy? He’s the wiriest of the lot of them! My money is on that ridiculously broad upper body. And by “my money is on his upper body,” I mean “I wish my hands were on his upper body.”

I totally did not just say that.

Why was this photo taken from up in a tree? I think Ralph Morse had some serious problems with being on the ground. He’s always photographing things from really curious angles.

I laugh af..

hi it's two am and i made a bunch of memes, enjoy

No one is embarrassed by Bill's mug!!

Hahaha gosh.

They're like

FOR CHRIST SAKE !!!!

They're like

FOR CHRIST SAKE !!!!

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone

Let’s pretend that we’re together all alone

I’ll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low

And you can tell your friend there with you he’ll have to go

-”He’ll Have to Go”, Nat King Cole 

Hahaha guys

When you and the bae bond over judging someone else’s stupidity

I'm crying.

It's too sad and ... We miss all of you, guys!

I miss you, Neil...

I can’t believe it’s been fifty-five years since the greatest group of guys in the whole world were presented as the next American astronauts