Mrs. Marilyn Lovell

Mrs. Marilyn Lovell, wife of Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., who is commander of Apollo 8, watches from a nearby boat as the NASA motor vessel Retriever gets ready to drop a mock-up of the command module into the water during a training period, Oct. 25, 1968. The Apollo 8 crew practiced egress and helicopter pickups in the Gulf of Mexico while the Apollo 7 crew was holding debriefing sessions following their successful orbital flight. (AP Photo/Fred Kaufman)