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Olson, Todd. Lost in Outer Space: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13. 2017. Scholastic Inc, New York, NY.
"Houston, we've had a problem"
Apollo 13 was supposed to be the Earth's 3rd manned space flight to the moon. The astronauts on Apollo 13 were scheduled to walk on the surface of the moon just days after blasting out of the Earth's orbit.
56 hours and thousands of miles into the mission, an unexpected and life threatening problem occurred.
An explosion rocked the space ship. The oxygen levels began to drop. Power began to fail. The question quickly became not "when would the astronauts land on the moon" but "would the astronauts live long enough to make it back to Earth?"
As the three astronauts James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert struggled to remain calm in the face of death, the ground crew worked around the clock to find an innovative solution that would bring a crippled spaceship running on almost no power and no navigation systems around the moon and safely home, the nation wondered whether or not the three men would survive.
Told with fascinating detail, you can follow the journey of Jim Lovell's family on Earth, the struggle of the ground crew to find an answer that would normally take months in a matter of hours, and the desperation of the astronauts trapped in a space ship hoping to find a way home. The three stories are dovetailed together with a riveting attention to detail.
This is their story.
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