Moonwreck : the true, tension-packed story of Apollo 13

by Henry S.F. Cooper Jr.

Blast-off time for Apollo-13 was 1313 hours on April 13, 1970. Soon after 9pm Central Time, one of the spacecraft's oxygen tanks blew up, hurling the craft and its three-man crew into a critical battle for survival.

This is the gruelling, minute-by-minute account of that epic struggle with death, and a fine tribute to courage, endurance and the indomitable human spirit.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Henry Spotswood Fenimore (S. F.) Cooper Jr. is the author of eight books about NASA and space exploration, and was a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. He lived in Cooperstown, New York.

He was a descendent of James Fenimore Cooper.