44 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2019The mountain named after Marilyn Lovell
made her one of a handful of women immortalized
on the Moon. by William Sheehan and Kevin Schindler
The women
in the Moon
Apollo 10’s command
module appears to the
lower right of Mount
Marilyn on the Sea of
Tranquillity’s shore.
The mountain would
serve as a navigational
tool for Apollo 11’s
landing two months
later. NASA