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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.
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 intended to land on the Moon, but an oxygen tank explosion resulted in the mission being aborted after trans-lunar injection. It flew by the Moon but did not orbit or land. Chabot Observatory calendar records an application of optical tracking during the final phases of Apollo 13, on April 17, 1970:
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 ...
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.
In the four-year span between 1969 and 1972, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon. No human being, from any nation, has repeated that feat in the more than 50 years that followed.
Popular Mechanics estimates the Moon's He-3 is worth $640,000 per pound -- around $25 quadrillion if every last ounce could be mined. As Dunstan explains, though, this isn't feasible.
On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin flew the Lunar Module Eagle to the surface and became the first humans to walk on the Moon, while Collins orbited in the Command Module Columbia. [18] The Apollo 11 mission reached President John F. Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the Moon's surface, and returning him safely to Earth, by the end of the 1960s.
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