Jack Lousma was a member of the second crew, Skylab-3, on the Skylab space station in 1973.
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Jack Lousma was a member of the second crew, Skylab-3, on the Skylab space station in 1973.
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Jack Lousma was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Jack Lousma is the last living crew member of both of his spaceflights.
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Jack Lousma was later the Republican Party nominee for a seat in the United States Senate from Michigan in 1984, losing to incumbent Carl Levin who won his second of six terms.
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Jack Lousma was a Boy Scout and earned the rank of Tenderfoot Scout.
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Jack Lousma played on the football team as a backup quarterback until an elbow injury ended his career.
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Jack Lousma earned a Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the U S Naval Postgraduate School in 1965.
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Jack Lousma became a United States Marine Corps officer in 1959, and received his aviator wings in 1960 after completing training at the Naval Air Training Command.
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Jack Lousma was one of the 19 astronauts selected in NASA Astronaut Group 5 in April 1966.
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Jack Lousma was the CAPCOM recipient of the "Houston, we've had a problem" message from Apollo 13.
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Jack Lousma spent 11 hours on two spacewalks outside the Skylab space station.
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Jack Lousma served as backup docking module pilot of the United States flight crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission which was completed successfully in July 1975.
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Jack Lousma was originally selected as the pilot of the two-man crew of STS-2, alongside commander Fred Haise.
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Jack Lousma was inducted with Fullerton into the International Space Hall of Fame during a ceremony with the governor of New Mexico in 1982 for their involvement in the STS-3 mission.
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Jack Lousma was one of 24 Apollo astronauts who were inducted into the U S Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Jack Lousma was presented an honorary doctorate of astronautical science from the University of Michigan in 1973, an honorary D Sc.
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