The United States Naval Academy

What a wonderful institution! I was priviledged to speak before the Midshipmen on Wed. Nov. 12th about Apollo. They were all very interested and hardly knew anything about the Apollo project. I was happy to tell them about the wonderful role the U.S. Navy had in the Apollo Recovery ships. There were six graduates who became astronauts: Charlie Duke (Apollo 16), Donn Eisele (Apollo 7), Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 and Apollo 13), Wally Schirra (Apollo 7), Alan Shepard (Apollo 14) and Tom Stafford (Apollo 10).
Jim Lovell did a very special thing on Apollo 8. I will always love him for that. It was Earthrise. It was his words.