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Apollo 13

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ISBN-10: 0618619585

ISBN-13: 9780618619580

Edition: 1994

Authors: James Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger, James Lovell

List price: $18.99
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Astory of courage-in space, at NASA, and at the homes of those involved" (Houston Chronicle), Apollo 13 recounts America"s fifth mission to the moon, a mission that nearly ended in catastrophe in April 1970. Only fifty-five hours into the flight, disaster struck for Jim Lovell and two other astronauts after an explosion left them with a rapidly declining supply of oxygen and power. Lovell and Kluger vividly chronicle how the men were forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for only two days. At home, a nation watched the desperate efforts of Mission Control to bring the crew back in what many consider NASA"s finest hour. Apollo 13 is…    
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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

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Jeffrey Kluger is a senior editor at TIME magazine, where he has worked since 1996. In 1994, he co-authored Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis for the Tom Hanks film Apollo 13 . His book about Jonas Salk and the Polio vaccine, Splendid Solution, was published in 2006. Three years later, he published Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and Why Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) . His latest book, The Sibling Effect , came out in 2011.