Thirteen
The Apollo Flight That Failed
Cooper Jr., Henry S.F.
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 outbord 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. Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Faüed 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 severly testet NASA's button-down etics of the time - forcing technological Improvisation on an organization built on caution and procedure.
softcover
200 Seiten / pages
very good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner
Baltimore - London - 1995 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
Art.Nr. 26086
