Jim Lovell Ride Way. Lovell's formal education consisted of the following: Lovell's awards and decorations include: About a month after the return to Earth of Apollo 13, Lovell and his crewmates, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, appeared on "The Tonight Show" with host Johnny Carson. The introduction of this segment of the show is featured on "Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13" on the single disc DVD version of the movie. In 1976, Lovell made a cameo appearance in the Nicolas Roeg movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth". In 1995, actor Tom Hanks portrayed Lovell in the film "Apollo 13",
Apollo 15 voyage, and Apollo 15 was the first lunar landing mission on which there was a heavy emphasis on science. If Apollo 15 had flown as an H mission, it would have been with CSM-111 and LM-9. That CSM was used by the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in 1975, but the lunar module went unused and is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center had some problems with the instruments in the service's module's SIM bay. Some instruments were late in arriving, and principal investigators or representatives of NASA contractors sought additional testing