Jim then married his high school sweetheart, Marilyn Gerlach. Their wedding occurred within three and a half hours of Jim's graduation from the Academy. Their family consists of four children - Jay, Jeffrey, Susan and Barbara. This was a very extraordinary family. Together, in one form or another, they lived their lives with Jim as he travelled farther than any other astronaut alive, logging over 600 hours and over 7,000,000 miles flying through space.