April 12, 2024
APOLLO 13. 1ST ED. 2ND PRINT. SIGNED BY JIM LOVELL
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APOLLO 13, by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. 2000 Houghton Mifflin Company. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. 378 pages. 61/4"x 91/4". First Edition, Second Printing of the 30th Anniversary edition. Signed by Lovell on publisher's plate on the title page. Black and White photographs plus color orbit map. Considered the best real-time record of an amazing recovery.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 fifty-five 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
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