Apollo 13
- ISBN-10
- 0618619585
- ISBN-13
- 9780618619580
- Series
- Apollo 13
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 390
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Authors
- Jeffrey Kluger, Jim Lovell
Description
Recounts the four-day ordeal of Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert and the dramatic struggle to bring back to Earth the tiny lunar module spacecraft into which they were forced to retreat when their main ship was damaged. Reprint.
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