Apollo 13: Jim Lovell's Life

First of all, the movie was focused more about the mission of Apollo 13 than Jim Lovell’s life. However, he was still the main character of the movie. Some of the most important similarities were Jim Lovell was married to Marilyn Lovell and had four kids. Jim’s older kid was a girl named Barbara Gerlach, his second kids was a boy; James Gerlach.The second youngest was Jeffrey Gerlach and lastly Susan Gerlach.There was slight mention of his mother unlike the biography where his mother was mentioned a couple of times. Another similarity is that Jim Lovell was the main Commander of the mission, Jack Swigert was the Command Module Pilot, and Fred Haise was the Sonar Module Pilot of Apollo 13. Also, Jim Lovell and his crew were working for