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Apollo 13: Houston We Have A Problem
Those that are familiar with Apollo 13 know that it was the seventh installment of the Apollo space program. It was classified as a manned mission by NASA as well as the third mission with the intention of landing on the moon, though it never actually succeeded in the lunar landing as it was aborted due to an oxygen tank explosion.
On April 11th of 1970, the Apollo 13 craft was sent to launch at 13:13 CST, or 19:13 UTC. It originated from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The incident that caused its mission to fail happened two days into the endeavor, and it crippled the Service Module. This was vitally important for the proper functioning of the Command Module.
Other hardships that had to be battled during flight included loss of cabin heat, a limited supply of power, a critical need for makeshift repairs to the system that removed carbon dioxide from the craft, and a shortage of potable water. Despite all of these things, the crew was able to safely return to Earth six days after they launched, on the 17th of April.
This is the incredible story of the Apollo 13 disaster, and the breathtaking, miraculous turnaround that saw the entire crew return safe and well.
On April 11th of 1970, the Apollo 13 craft was sent to launch at 13:13 CST, or 19:13 UTC. It originated from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The incident that caused its mission to fail happened two days into the endeavor, and it crippled the Service Module. This was vitally important for the proper functioning of the Command Module.
Other hardships that had to be battled during flight included loss of cabin heat, a limited supply of power, a critical need for makeshift repairs to the system that removed carbon dioxide from the craft, and a shortage of potable water. Despite all of these things, the crew was able to safely return to Earth six days after they launched, on the 17th of April.
This is the incredible story of the Apollo 13 disaster, and the breathtaking, miraculous turnaround that saw the entire crew return safe and well.
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Published August 21, 2017
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December 6, 2023
Poorly edited and dumbed down
The story of Apollo 13 is fascinating on many levels - the human, the technical and the scientific. It has been told, and told well, in books like "Lost Moon" by James Lovell, and on screen in "Apollo 13". I was expecting a retelling concentrating on the engineering aspects using the 50 years of hindsight, and was disappointed. The book is merely a patchwork of snippets, with no coherence. Further, it doesn't add anything new; a few irrelevancies about the ownership of material taken on Apollo 13, but I learnt nothing I didn't already know, mainly from Lovell's book.
One could excuse this if the material was well arranged and presented. But it is not - it is a patchwork of almost disconnected paragraphs; it reads like a stream of consciousness, as if every idea that occurred was put down as it came to the author's mind.
Finally, I edit copy for academics whose first language is not English, and I have rarely come across so many errors of style and grammar in a published book. Did the publisher not read it before printing it? My hand was itching to correct things on every page!
The story of Apollo 13 is fascinating on many levels - the human, the technical and the scientific. It has been told, and told well, in books like "Lost Moon" by James Lovell, and on screen in "Apollo 13". I was expecting a retelling concentrating on the engineering aspects using the 50 years of hindsight, and was disappointed. The book is merely a patchwork of snippets, with no coherence. Further, it doesn't add anything new; a few irrelevancies about the ownership of material taken on Apollo 13, but I learnt nothing I didn't already know, mainly from Lovell's book.
One could excuse this if the material was well arranged and presented. But it is not - it is a patchwork of almost disconnected paragraphs; it reads like a stream of consciousness, as if every idea that occurred was put down as it came to the author's mind.
Finally, I edit copy for academics whose first language is not English, and I have rarely come across so many errors of style and grammar in a published book. Did the publisher not read it before printing it? My hand was itching to correct things on every page!
December 15, 2018
It's shit!
July 16, 2019
Apollo 13
Good and interesting read. I found that there was too much technical information in it for some one who just wanted to read about what happened.
Good and interesting read. I found that there was too much technical information in it for some one who just wanted to read about what happened.
March 28, 2023
Very clumsily written.
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