Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed (Revised)

Cooper, Henry S. F.; Wedlock, Eldon D.

ISBN 10: 0801850975 / ISBN 13: 9780801850974

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

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Synopsis:

On April 13, 1970, some 205,000 miles from Earth, an explosion rocked the moon-bound Apollo 13, taking our both engines of the command module and crippling the life-support system. Guided by the ground crew in Huston, the crew took refuge in the lunar module and used its engines, almost in the fashion of an outboard motor, to maneuver the craft around the moon and back toward Earth. With temperatures in the module below freezing, water in short supply, and one crew member seriously ill, the astronauts and the ground crew struggles to manuipulate machines into doing things they were never meant to do.

Long unavailable, Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed ia a riveting, minute by minute acount of the only madded NASA mission to have malfunctioned outside Earth's orbit. Henry Cooper takes readers behind the scenes in this story of unprecedented crisis that severely tested NASA's button-down ethic of the time-forcing technological improvisation on an organization built on caution and procedure.

About the Author: Henry S. F. Cooper is the author of seven other books about NASA and space exploration, including Before Liftoff, available from Johns Hopkins.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed (...
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket