Apollo 13

  • Apollo 13: A Successful Failure
    By Laura B. Edge

    Then Apollo commander Thomas Stafford guided the Apollo command module to the Soyuz spacecraft and docked, joining the spacecraft together. A few minutes later, hatches opened, and astronauts and cosmonauts shook hands.

  • Apollo 13
    By Jeffrey Kluger, Jim Lovell

    The flight before Lovell's , Apollo 13 , was to be flown by Alan Shepard , Stuart Roosa , and Edgar Mitchell . Shepard , the first American in space , had become a national icon on May 5 , 1961 , when he went aloft in his tiny Mercury ...

  • Apollo 13: Space Race
    By Gail Herman

    Recounts American-Russian competion in space from Sputnik to Apollo 13

  • Apollo 13: Space Emergency
    By Michael D. Cole

    Peter Bond , Heroes in Space : From Gagarin to Challenger ( New York : Basil Blackwell , Inc. , 1987 ) , p . 231 . Chapter 2 1. John and Nancy Dewaard , History of NASA : America's Voyage to the Stars ( Greenwich , Conn .

  • Apollo 13: The NASA Mission Reports
    By United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    One of NASA’s truly great historical moments is recreated through these original documents.

  • Apollo 13
    By Jeffrey Kluger, Jim Lovell

    This gripping story of human endurance is the basis for Ron Howard's classic film starring Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon.

  • Apollo 13: How Three Brave Astronauts Survived a Space Disaster
    By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    An account of the fateful April 1970 mission to the moon follows the harrowing experiences of its three astronauts, who fought to return safely to Earth in the wake of a disastrous explosion.

  • Apollo 13: A Successful Failure
    By Laura B. Edge

    "This young adult book tells the story of the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

  • Apollo 13
    By Alan Pierce

    Discusses defining moments in American history.

  • Apollo 13: Houston We Have A Problem: The True Story of the Apollo 13 Disaster
    By Phil Coleman

    This is the incredible story of the Apollo 13 disaster, and the breathtaking, miraculous turnaround that saw the entire crew return safe and well.

  • Apollo 13
    By Dina Anastasio, Brent Furnas

    When their main oxygen tank explodes on the way to the moon, the crew of Apollo 13 use their tiny lunar module as a lifeboat and hope to return to earth.

  • Apollo 13
    By Jeffrey Kluger, James Lovell

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Astronaut Jim Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger’s harrowing account of the Apollo 13 disaster. Serving as the basis for Ron Howard’s blockbuster Apollo 13, the book reveals true details not shown in the movie.

  • Apollo 13: The Reconstruction
    By Raymond K. Seymour

    This is a story of such a sequence of unconnected events that combine to form a realization of enormous proportions and danger. Has the Apollo 13 capsule outlived its usefulness?

  • Apollo 13
    By Jeffrey Kluger, Jim Lovell

    In April of 1970, during NASA's fifth mission to the moon, Jim Lovell and his fellow Apollo 13 astronauts found their craft crippled by a mysterious explosion.

  • Apollo 13: Mission to the Moon
    By Virginia Loh-Hagan

    Could you survive mechanical failure in space? Apollo 13: Mission to the Moon in the True Survival series explores the shocking survival story of the Apollo 13 spacecraft and her crew.

  • Apollo 13: The NASA Mission Reports
    By Robert Godwin

    In this book, some of the rare official documentation of the voyage of Apollo 13 is collected and made commercially available for the first time.