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Thirteen:The Apollo Flight That Failed
Henry SF Cooper Jr
Open Road Integrated Media LLC
November 2013
On Sale: November 19, 2013
110 pages ISBN: 1480462195 EAN: 9781480462199 Kindle: B00H5KRG82 e-Book (reprint)
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“Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts
aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar
landing in history. But as they soared through space, two
hundred thousand miles from earth, an explosion badly
damaged their spacecraft. With compromised engines and
failing life-support systems, the crew was in incomparably
grave danger. Faced with below-freezing temperatures, a
seriously ill crew member, and a dwindling water supply, a
safe return seemed unlikely. Thirteen is the shocking, miraculous, and entirely true
story of how the astronauts and ground crew guided Apollo 13
to a safe landing on earth. Expanding on dispatches written
for the New Yorker, Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. brings readers
unparalleled detail on the moment-by-moment developments of
one of NASA’s most dramatic missions.
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