we're go, flight

ah of course!!

so in the early fifties, jim lovell, still a navy officer and not yet the astronaut we know and love, was attending an army/navy game when he met a young west point cadet at a party. now, he never got the cadet’s name, but as per tradition at games such as these, the two decided to exchange a memento of some kind. since jim had nothing else handy, he decided to give the cadet one of his navy cuff links, and in kind, the cadet gave him an army cuff link.

years later, after jim had joined nasa, he recounted this little tale to ed white, and as jim recounts in lost moon:

“White’s jaw dropped. He was the West Pointer; he, like Lovell, had told the story numerous times over the intervening years; and he, like Lovell, still had the cuff link. The two astronauts became fast friends.”

"The Apollo 13 (CSM-109/LM-7/SA-508) space vehicle is launched from Pad A Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 2:13 p.m. (EST), April 11, 1970. The crew of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) third lunar landing mission are astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., commander; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot."

"The Apollo 13 mission insignia depicts the Greek god of the Sun, Apollo, with three horses pulling his chariot across the face of the Moon, and the Earth seen in the distance. This is meant to symbolize the Apollo flights bringing the light of knowledge to all people. The mission motto, Ex luna, scientia ("From the Moon, knowledge"), appears. In choosing it, Lovell adapted the motto of his alma mater, the Naval Academy, Ex scientia, tridens ("From knowledge, sea power")."

-Info from Wikipedia: link

Date: April 11, 1970

NASA ID: S70-34852, S70-38747, S70-34853, S70-34855, S70-34854, 0101247, S69-60662