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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (published in paperback as Apollo 13) is a 1994 non-fiction book by astronaut Jim Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger, about the failed April 1970 Apollo 13 lunar landing mission which Lovell commanded.
The pages in this category are about books which primarily deal with NASA's Apollo Program. Pages in category "Books about the Apollo program" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
James Arthur Lovell Jr. (/ ˈ l ʌ v əl / ⓘ LUV-əl; born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders, one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon.
Jeffrey Kluger was born in 1954 to a Jewish Family. Kluger attended Pikesville High School in Pikesville, Maryland, a northwest suburb of Baltimore. [citation needed] He attended the University of Maryland and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1976, and the University of Baltimore Law School, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1979.
Edgar Mitchell's memorial in the Treasures of Apollo exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Apollo 14 command module Kitty Hawk, Mitchell's memorial wreath nearby Mitchell died under hospice care in West Palm Beach, Florida , at the age of 85, on February 4, 2016, [ 11 ] [ 45 ] the eve of the 45th anniversary of his lunar landing. [ 17 ]
And those two seemingly minuscule mishaps translate into big dollar signs for those who own a copy with the typos in tact – versions of the novel with these mistakes are fetching over $13,000 ...