The Women in the Moon.

Craters honor many of the Apollo astronauts, and Mount Marilyn - named for astronaut Jim Lovell's wife - served as a key navigational landmark during the first moon landing. We are now more than 50 years removed from the historic Apollo 8 mission, in which astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders first circumnavigated the moon. To fulfill President John F. Kennedy's audacious goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth by the end of the decade, Apollo 11 astronauts needed Apollo 8 to serve as a scout. Apollo 8 and 13 astronaut Jim Lovell also has a lunar feature named for him, this 22-mile-wide (35 kilometers) oblong crater on the moon's farside. [Extracted from the article]
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