| Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cooper, Henry S. F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801850975 ISBN-13: 9780801850974 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $25.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 Annotation: On April 13, 1970, some 205,000 miles from the Earth, an explosion rocked the moon-bound Apollo 13, taking out both engines of the command module and crippling the life-support system. Guided by the ground crew in Houston, 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 struggled to manipulate machines into doing things they were never meant to do. Long unavailable, Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed is a riveting, minute-by-minute account of the only manned NASA mission to have malfunctioned outside the 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction - Science | Physics - Astrophysics - Technology & Engineering | Aeronautics & Astronautics |
| Dewey: 629.454 |
| LCCN: 94039726 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.48" W x 8.44" (0.55 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cooper, Henry S. F.: - Henry S. F. Cooper is the author of seven other books about NASA and space exploration, including Before Liftoff, available from Johns Hopkins. |