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Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual
Apollo 13 Owners' Workshop Manual: An engineering insight into how NASA saved the crew of the failed Moon mission
The world-famous Apollo 13 mission and dramatic explosion on the service module, captured in technical detail like you’ve never seen before.
On April 13, 1970, NASA’s Apollo 13 suffered a near-catastrophic explosion in space. The planned lunar landing that day was promptly called off, and a new challenge prioritized: get the spacecraft safely back to Earth.
Written by David Baker, an original member of NASA’s Apollo 13 Houston Mission Control team, Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual offers unprecedented, meticulous coverage of the Apollo 13 mission. Beginning with an overview of the era’s equipment and technology, Baker focuses primarily on the planning, goals, and execution of the mission itself, including an hour-by-hour timeline of the crew’s near-disaster in space. Additionally, his thorough analysis of the post-flight investigation and lurking design problems with the spacecraft offer the rare viewpoint of a true Apollo 13 insider. Not only does Baker present and analyze the mission itself, but he also celebrates NASA’s legacy in the wake of the event with the redesign of sections of the Apollo spacecraft and the changes to the way later missions were organized, beginning with Apollo 14.
In typical fully illustrated Haynes Manual detail, Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual presents the fascinating circumstances behind a team who recovered their spacecraft just hours before hurtling back into the earth’s atmosphere. But more than that, the book is a brand-new insight into the remarkable story of how clever, improvised engineering, remarkable teamwork, and sheer will to succeed averted a major catastrophe in space.
On April 13, 1970, NASA’s Apollo 13 suffered a near-catastrophic explosion in space. The planned lunar landing that day was promptly called off, and a new challenge prioritized: get the spacecraft safely back to Earth.
Written by David Baker, an original member of NASA’s Apollo 13 Houston Mission Control team, Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual offers unprecedented, meticulous coverage of the Apollo 13 mission. Beginning with an overview of the era’s equipment and technology, Baker focuses primarily on the planning, goals, and execution of the mission itself, including an hour-by-hour timeline of the crew’s near-disaster in space. Additionally, his thorough analysis of the post-flight investigation and lurking design problems with the spacecraft offer the rare viewpoint of a true Apollo 13 insider. Not only does Baker present and analyze the mission itself, but he also celebrates NASA’s legacy in the wake of the event with the redesign of sections of the Apollo spacecraft and the changes to the way later missions were organized, beginning with Apollo 14.
In typical fully illustrated Haynes Manual detail, Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual presents the fascinating circumstances behind a team who recovered their spacecraft just hours before hurtling back into the earth’s atmosphere. But more than that, the book is a brand-new insight into the remarkable story of how clever, improvised engineering, remarkable teamwork, and sheer will to succeed averted a major catastrophe in space.
204 pages, Hardcover
First published September 13, 2013
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July 15, 2023
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September 3, 2014
This is an impressive book that covers, in lots of detail, the Apollo 13 mission. You will learn lots of technical details about the launch, the incident in space, to the final splashdown and the aftermath of the incident.
The book covers the mission in strict chronological order, with information about the incident already in place. For example, information about the misbehaving oxygen tank that ruptured is given near the beginning of the book, when it is installed in the Service Module. This means you will know what will happen. In an investigative book, the information would only be known at the end during the incident investigation.
What the book shows is the impressive professionalism of all the people who were involved, even those on the peripheral. For example, one of the stories told in the book involved one of the engineers rushing to work who explained why he ran a red light to the police; he is then given a police escort to make sure he got to work to help with the rescue mission.
The amount of technical detail given is impressive, covering not only the initial phase of the mission before launch, but also how it is suppose to work during the mission. Perhaps too much information for at times, the book feels like it is dumping information on the reader instead of moving the story of the mission forward.
If you are looking for a technical book on the Apollo 13 mission that covers the people involved in it and how they used their know-how to reuse the available equipment and technology to bring the astronauts back alive, this is the book to read.
The book covers the mission in strict chronological order, with information about the incident already in place. For example, information about the misbehaving oxygen tank that ruptured is given near the beginning of the book, when it is installed in the Service Module. This means you will know what will happen. In an investigative book, the information would only be known at the end during the incident investigation.
What the book shows is the impressive professionalism of all the people who were involved, even those on the peripheral. For example, one of the stories told in the book involved one of the engineers rushing to work who explained why he ran a red light to the police; he is then given a police escort to make sure he got to work to help with the rescue mission.
The amount of technical detail given is impressive, covering not only the initial phase of the mission before launch, but also how it is suppose to work during the mission. Perhaps too much information for at times, the book feels like it is dumping information on the reader instead of moving the story of the mission forward.
If you are looking for a technical book on the Apollo 13 mission that covers the people involved in it and how they used their know-how to reuse the available equipment and technology to bring the astronauts back alive, this is the book to read.
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