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Apollo 13

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In fact I didn't like this book that much. It's a book, that actually could make me fall asleep very easily. The beginning of the book is soooooooo stretched and stuffed with soooooooo many shortcuts you have to look up in the appendix each time you read them. It takes more than half of the book to until the first real tense situations develop. If you are really interested in space travelling and allready have a basic knowledge of all the functions of each little, glittering button in an Apollo spacecraft, this is the right book for you to read, but else you'd better purchase the video.

This book displays the courage of the three men, what took place in Mission Control, and what happened at the Lovell's home. At first, I thought it would be just like the movie, or a one person narritive. But once I read it, I knew that I was very wrong. If you saw the movie, and thought that it was great, you must read this book. Apollo 13 the book is much better than Apollo 13 the movie.

If you have not read this book, what are you waiting for? It is a fascinating look at America's space program - how it worked, what went wrong, and who was involved. If action is what you are looking for, READ IT! Do you love suspense? READ IT! Do you remember when it happened? READ IT! If you ever had a dream and saw it crash, READ THIS BOOK! Jim Lovell missed the moon and made history anyway. If you love a good book, READ IT! Reviewer: Daniel Krupnik from Tel Aviv , ISRAEL. April 5, 1999 In 1970 , jun lovell and his crew ware the team of Apollo 13, the third flight that we thot will land on the moon , and tried to do so. The crew of thie flight experincd a problem A MAJOR problem with apollo 13. This book will make you stay all night , thinking and trying to imagine what happend there , 29 years ago , up in space. It makes you think about all the Apollo program And wounder about all the apollo , moon and space prgram's. Thie book is full of informition and it will glue you to the seat. This is one of the best books I have ever read. It's written by an experienced astronaut who has been to space many times. The book is about Apollo 13 which was intended to land on Fra Mauro but in the evening on the first day in space the crew are assigned to "stir up their cryo tanks". Then it happens: The crew hear a large BANG and they tell Houston: -Houston, we've had a problem. They find out that they have a "Main B bus undervolt" and that they are venting something. Later they find out that it is the oxygen that is venting. The lunar module is built to keep two men alive for just two days, but now there are three men and four days home. The crew at Ground Control start to work on the problem. After a while they find that it will be to much carbon dioxide in the module so the crew on the ground control have to star working on that problem too. After a while they have built a filter that they want the crew in Apollo 13 to build. At least they succeed to keep themselves alive and they splash down in the Pacific Ocean. When they are onboard the ship they go for medical tests. It shows that Fred Haise has got a heavy fever. The crew are honored with the `Medal of Freedom`

If you have not read this book, what are you waiting for? It is a fascinating look at America's space program - how it worked, what went wrong, and who was involved. If action is what you are looking for, READ IT! Do you love suspense? READ IT! Do you remember when it happened? READ IT! If you ever had a dream and saw it crash, READ THIS BOOK! Jim Lovell missed the moon and made history anyway. If you love a good book, READ IT!

I picked up this book thinking it would be more or less a synopsis of the events portrayed in the movie. Much to my enjoyment that was not the case at all. This book is a thorough history of the events surrounding the mission of Apollo 13. It contains a good bit of historical perspecive of the programs leading up to the Apollo missions themselves (Mercury and Gemini) as well as the "inner thoughts" of many involved with the space program. It is relatively even handed in its portrayal of NASA -- although at least partially penned by Jim Lovell, it is willing to point out the weaknesess in the program.

A very enjoyable story, as well as a look at our space program's history.

A very good book about the voyage of Apollo 13

Apollo 13 was a really well written book that tells all about not only the voyage of Apollo 13, but of the space program from begining to the end of the Apollo era. It covers the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs extremely well, and captures the suspense and action of the Apollo 13 voyage from all angles, whether it was the bleary-eyed crew, crammed inside the lunar module, or Marilyn Lovell facing the very real possibility that her husband may not come home again.

A MUST READ!! TEN STARS!!

In 1970 , jun lovell and his crew ware the team of Apollo 13, the third flight that we thot will land on the moon , and tried to do so. The crew of thie flight experincd a problem A MAJOR problem with apollo 13. This book will make you stay all night , thinking and trying to imagine what happend there , 29 years ago , up in space. It makes you think about all the Apollo program And wounder about all the apollo , moon and space prgram's. Thie book is full of informition and it will glue you to the seat.

If you like the apollo program - YOU NEED THIS BOOK.

I am a sixth-grade student writing a research paper on Apollo 13, and I used your book as one of my sources. It was a very fact-filled book, but I thought it seemed more like Jim Lovell's biography. There was too much trivial information on Jim Lovell's young life and the Apollo 1 mission in which Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chafee were killed. What I was looking for was a comprehensible book about Apollo 13, and Apollo 13 only, not a book with half of it on what happened to Jim Lovell before he ever went on Apollo 13. I'm sorry if I sound offensive, because Ron Howard did make a very successful movie based on it, but if you don't think I ever give good comments, read my input for the Apollo 13 book "Moon Shot", by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, which I rated 5 stars.

This book brillantly captures the heroism of those 3 brave astronauts and the thousands of people who worked to bring the three of them home.