Apollo 13: 87 Hours, Three Men, and the Improvised Rescue That Brought Them Home

by Jack Soren, Virtual Voice (Narrator)

Forget the heroic score and the Hollywood gloss. In Apollo 13: 87 Hours, Three Men, and the Improvised Rescue That Brought Them Home, Jack Soren delivers a gripping, precision-engineered account of NASA’s most famous 'successful failure.' This is the story of how three men survived a ticking bomb in the vacuum of space, not through miracles, but through the relentless application of engineering logic under impossible pressure. From the 28-volt thermostatic switch that doomed the mission years before launch to the improvised 'mailbox' that saved the crew from suffocation, Soren strips away the myth to reveal the raw technical drama of the rescue.

Readers will experience the 'cold iron' shutdown of the Odyssey, the high-stakes manual burns using only the Earth’s horizon for navigation, and the grueling 87-hour race to rewrite the flight manual in real-time. For fans of immersive narrative history, this is a masterclass in crisis management, showing how a culture of rigorous simulation and over-engineered margins turned an orbital catastrophe into a triumph of human ingenuity.

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Published July 6, 2026

About the author

Jack Soren was born and raised in Toronto, Canada.

Before becoming a thriller novelist, Jack wrote software manuals, drove a cab and spent six months as a really terrible private investigator.

His debut novel THE MONARCH was short-listed for the Kobo Emerging Writer award.

He lives in the Toronto area.