James Lovell Astronaut

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Another dispute Speedmaster was to do with Apollo 13 which was filmed. In July 1970, Apollo 13 was implemented as planned. When the spacecraft flied in the space, everything seemed to be motionless, and time and the space seemed to lose coordinate, the trip to the moon was as quiet as the universe. But an unexpected disaster came suddenly: when the spacecraft approached the moon, the oxygen slot exploded, which caused the spacecraft lose oxygen and electricity. At the same time, the control center received a message from the spacecraft that was 205.000 kilometers away: Houston, we have an accident! These new short disturbed all the scientists and engineers in the center, it was the news they did not want to hear more.

Currently, three astronauts are faced with a challenge they never had, they had to return to earth in just four days, except the wireless driver from the control center, they to fix everything by themselves. Not to be a lonely soul in space and not be separated from their families, these three men conquered a lot of difficulties through their strong will and good cooperation, finally, a very important moment came: Apollo 13 had to calculate exactly which 14 seconds was the time of ignition, so that Apollo 13 could escape the Moon's orbit and entered the earth and returned. At that time Director of astronauts Jim Lovell (acted by Tom Hank in the movie) and Jack Swigert completed the timing by wristwatches (another astronaut was Fred Haise who replaced Ken Matingly). ? The Best of Times: Rolex, an unauthorized history? Written by James Dowling and Jeffrey Hess says that was the GMT-Master worn by Jack Swigertg that helped Apollo 13 returned to earth safely. James Dowling admitted that one was primarily responsible for timing was possible the Speedmaster worn by Jim Lovell, but he did not say it was GMT-Master of Jack Swigert who helped Apollo 13 to return safely.

Reviewing photos and videos from the Apollo 13 mission, Jack Swigert was exactly 1675 GMT Master Rolex, but there was another picture showing that he wore a bracelet with Speedmaster Vecro the space suit. The photo of U.S. President Richard Nixon giving Medal of Freedom to the members of Apollo 13 in Hawaii, you can clearly see that Jack Swigert wore a watch on each wrist. Since we could not tell what watch was used by Swigert when he calculates the ignition timing of the video, there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate that it was Rolex GMT Master but not Speedmaster that saved Apollo 13. But what is interesting is, as far as the timer function is concerned, GMT Master is obviously not as practical as Speedmaster Speedmaster is from a timer is why NASA focused on Chronograph from the very beginning and collected their emission standard based on this.

Members of Apollo 13 receives the Medal of Freedom by Richard M. Nixon, Swigert is the first on the left side with a Rolex GMT Master on his wrist

Fred Haise in Sppedmaster in the movie Apollo 13