The name did not ring a bell for Old Dino either. Guess it should have for my being an old dino.
This being the so-called Information Age yet (inhabited by so many of the clueless), I tapped into Ye Olde Search Engine and received instantaneous results~

http://www.biography.com/people/james...

Have to admit, seeing a provided link already here to click onto would have been the result of a thoughtful gesture.

This needs some explaining! Who is Jim Lovell, and where is this quote from??? I'm evidently not as psychic as the other responders here.

I grew up with NASA. The time frame was just awesome. I got lucky in the fact that my uncle was a computer guy, worked for Burroughs Computer Corp. Burroughs did mainframes and NASA used a lot of them, so my uncle actually worked at the Cape and other NASA sites and I got lucky and got to spend some time each summer with my aunt and uncle in places likes Merritt Island, Florida and Patuxent River, Maryland and Houston, Texas. So I got to see several launches and see several of the Apollo craft up close, along with all the tech associated with them. I also met lots of cool engineers who were more than happy to enthrall a young child with stories. They infused my interest in electronics and most things associated with their technology. My uncle got me into physics, computers and math. It was a great time to grow up and yes, as many can attest, they went up and most came back.

I was alive. I remember staying up late watching fuzzy images on our black and white tv. All this amazing engineering was done with slip sticks, pencil and paper, back when the most powerful computer was the human brain.

And there are still people that 'believe' it was a fake!
But the rest of us just keep deciding to 'do'

I was not alive, but I imagine it being a golden age of engineering.

The "miracle" of positive action...

Thanks for the inspiration, kh.