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THIRTEEN:THE APOLLO FLIGHT THAT FAILED
By: Henry SF Cooper Jr
Open Road Integrated Media LLC
November 2013
On Sale: November 19, 2013
110 pages
ISBN: 1480462195
EAN: 9781480462199
Kindle: B00H5KRG82
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction
βHouston, weβve had a problem here.β 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 NASAβs most dramatic missions.
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