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moorouge Member Posts: 2454 From: U.K. Registered: Jul 2009	posted 02-10-2011 01:53 PM Browsing through the 1975 edition of my Manned Spaceflight booklet I have come across this entry. I recorded that the last known activity of James Lovell in September 1974 was his association with Evel Knievel in the latter's attempt to fly across the Snake River Canyon. Does anyone know anything more about this?
dabolton Member Posts: 419 From: Seneca, IL, US Registered: Jan 2009	posted 02-10-2011 02:03 PM From Life of Evel: Evel Knievel by Stuart Barker: With America's space programme still in full swing in the early 1970s, it was to Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks in the 1995 movie Apollo 13) that Knievel turned to for advice. Lovell recommended a rocket specialist called Robert C. 'Bob' Truax, who Knievel boasted had worked with NASA on 'all the big space stuff from the start.'
buckeyecal Member Posts: 90 From: soon to be Boise, ID USA Registered: Feb 2006	posted 02-10-2011 04:34 PM I remember when they broadcast the Snake River jump, CDR Lovell was part of the "play by play" team along with David Frost and Jules Bergman...you can youtube it I believe.
Blackarrow Member Posts: 3120 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002	posted 02-10-2011 05:35 PM OK, the Big Question: was the premature release of the Sky-cycle parachutes accidental or deliberate?
kking Member Posts: 106 From: Topmost, KY Registered: Nov 2002	posted 02-10-2011 08:16 PM I have the jump on DVD from ABC Wide World of Sports. Lovell and Jules Bergman were on the broadcast team. Evel did appear on a short-lived TV show in the late 70s called Lie Detector. He said the chutes deployed accidentally by a technical malfunction at ignition. He told the truth. Can't remember the lawyer host but I do know he was on OJ's defense team.

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