Apollo 13

De: Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger

Narrado por: Fred Sanders

An all-new recording of the landmark number one best seller!

In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon. Only 55 hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Written with all the color and drama of the best fiction, Apollo 13 (previously published as Lost Moon) tells the full story of the moon shot that almost ended in catastrophe. Minutes after the explosion, the three astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days. As the hours tick away, the narrative shifts from the crippled spacecraft to Mission Control, from engineers searching desperately for a way to fix the ship to Lovell's wife and children praying for his safe return. The entire nation watches as one crisis after another is met and overcome. By the time the ship splashes down in the Pacific, we understand why the heroic effort to rescue Lovell and his crew is considered by many to be NASA's finest hour

Decades after the launch of the mission, Jim Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger offer an incisive look at America's waxing and waning love affair with space exploration during the past three decades, culminating only recently when the Apollo 13 spacecraft itself, long consigned to an aviation museum outside Paris, was at last returned to its rightful home in the United States. The story of Apollo 13 is a timeless tribute to the enduring American spirit and sparkling individual heroism.

©2006, 2019 Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger (P)2019 Simon & Schuster

So much better than the movie

Great book, so in depth. Movie was good but missing so much. Understandable with the limited time given to the movie

Heroic story

The detailed story of brave smart men designing answers to multiple problems arising from the Apollo 13 mission to the moon. Despite freezing conditions, innumerable issues, the crews in the Apollo spacecraft and those in Houston found a way to get the astronauts back safely to Earth. This is an amazing achievement and tribute to those at NASA and the wives and family bearing through this harrowing mission. Great book.

Great story, terrible narrator.

there's a lot of detail here. pretty interesting in that regard. but the narrator just sounds robotic.

Steely eyed missile men

All accomplishments are built of minutia, wrong parts or critical checklists; some are great.

amazing!

Amazing, true story of some of the bravest, hardworking men ever. could not stop listening. Thank you.