Lost Moon
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 is a book written by Jim Lovell (the commander of the Apollo 13 moon landing mission) and Jeffrey Kluger. A Ron Howard movie by the same name, Apollo 13 is also based on this book.
Apollo 13 was the third American manned moon landing mission, and became famous for the astronauts' successful return to earth after the spacecraft suffered crippling damage in an explosion while in transit to the moon.
[edit] Physical Description
- Hardcover: 378 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T) (October 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN 0-395-67029-2
- Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches
[edit] Summary
From Library Journal
- The lunar landing mission of Apollo 13, commanded by veteran astronaut Lovell, was to be the crowning accomplishment of his NASA career. However, little more than two days into the flight, an oxygen tank exploded, crippling the service module's electrical system and forcing the crew to abandon their mother ship and use the lunar module as a lifeboat. Lovell and Kluger's account of Mission Control's heroic efforts to figure out a way to bring the crew home safely and the astronauts' race against time in a freezing spacecraft provide the core of this gripping narrative. Shifting from the engineers' struggles in Houston to contractors' efforts across the country to the concerns of the astronauts' families, this work fleshes out Apollo 13's story more fully than earlier accounts (Henry Cooper's Thirteen: The Flight That Failed, LJ 3/15/73) and adds to the growing body of firsthand astronaut accounts of their pioneering flights. [1]
