Lot 478: LOVELL, JAMES

JAMES LOVELL (b. 1928) American astronaut who served as pilot on the Gemini 7 and 12 missions, Apollo 8, and on the ill-fated Apollo 13 aborted mission. Excessively rare S.P. 8" x 10" color showing Lovell half-length in a pressure suit, a globe of the moon before him, and a space scene in the background, signed adding his famous understatement spoken upon the explosion of Apollo 13's oxygen system tank: "Houston we have a problem James Lovell Apollo 13". Very fine. $300-400