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Summary: What can I say Fabulous
Review: I spent 6 months trying to find this book and when I did I was not disappointed. What can you say a fabulous book written by a faboulous person. Even though the book is very tecnical it is a fabolous read. I ended up writting notes on the book i ended up with a set nearly an inch thick!! If you enjoy a good book with lots of information an space flight and how it is achieved, READ IT NOW!!
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Summary: An ongoing thriller of heroic action.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book with all of the action and heroism making it a book not to miss
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Summary: the best of the best of the best of the best books!
Review: 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`
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Summary: Apollo 13 - if you love apollo YOU NEED THIS BOOK!!
Review: 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.
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Summary: quite well, but ... uh, very stretched
Review: 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.
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Summary: Movie whets appetite, book fills it!
Review: It had been a long time since I first saw the Apollo 13 movie and it was on TV, so I stopped and watched (and didn't move again until it was finished). The movie was fascinating, and it really triggered an interest to know more about what actually happened. With the limited time format in a movie to convey the technical information and the science behind 'slingshotting' the Apollo spacecraft around the moon, it was difficult to the full impact of the immense effort to get these men back safely. So when I had an opportunity to get the book, I did. I think this is the first time I've read a book and seen a movie that were both excellent. The movie did the best possible job in a limited time to convey the urgency. The book, which is filled with the conversations of the astronauts with NASA space center, as well as the innovation behind the scenes of all the men involved (and the companies) is absolute 'must' reading for anyone who wants to understand the science and engineering behind this almost-disaster. I beg to differ with the men who felt they had failed, including Lovell who did not get to land on the moon. Without the knowledge they gained from this flight, more people may have died...and it certainly advanced knowledge and understanding for space flight for the rest of us left on earth below. This is an incredible story and an well-written book. I could hardly put the thing down, and this is not an area of expertise or interest for me usually. It's a little hard to keep the names and people straight, because so many were involved. But it is worth the effort. This is an excellent book to give to students interested in space or engineering. I could see requiring this book to be read in science classrooms, showing the movie, and then having the students get more involved in the actual science, such as calculations of distances...map/reliefs of why the moon for a slingshot effect, etc. Great stuff, and for once, great men who truly can be called heroes (both on the earth and in space). A means of teaching that true heroes are those who use their minds and actually 'do' something that has an impact for good. Karen Sadler,
Science Education,
University of Pittsburgh
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Summary: I LOVED this book!
Review: Let me start off by saying that I do NOT understand Orbital Mechanics and Quantum Physics or what Gimbal Lock is...however after reading 'Apollo 13' I felt as though I STILL didn't know... but could fake it if I had to. I have been utterly facinated with the moon landings ever since watching TV in '69 and seeing the entire planet rivited on what a couple Americans were doing a quater-million miles away from earth. It STILL facinates me. This story of the ONLY moon-shot that didn't make it is as dramatic as anything you could possibly read. I assume most everyone saw the movie (which SHOULD have won Ron Howard an Academy Award for Best Director) and as good as it was, they left out SO MUCH of what ELSE went wrong on that voyage. After reading I kept thinking, 'Is this an exercise in whatever CAN go wrong WILL go wrong?' I am SO amazed that these men made it back to earth despite being stuck in a crippled spacecraft with NO possible chance of a rescue mission. It really was the collective efforts of hundreds of people that made it all happen. Despite the fact that these men did NOT land on the moon, it really was an incredible story of how a large group of people working together can truly do heroic things. I encourage ANYONE who found the movie interesting to pick this book up and get a chance to find out the WHOLE story...trust me, there was simply NO WAY to bring it all to the silver screen (not without making it a mini-series anyway) and do it justice. It's an inspiring and sometimes terrifying tale, even though you KNOW how it all ends. It gave me even more respect for those who not just gave their life for the chance to explore space, but made me proud to be an American--now I KNOW that sounds cliche, but it's the only way to describe how incredibly amazed I was at this fantastic story. They say truth IS stranger than fiction, and well this story WASN'T strange, it certainly WAS a LOT more dramatic.
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Summary: Much different than other Apollo "tell-all" accounts...
Review: Most of the other first person accounts from ex-astronauts are mearly a re-hashing of their careers, but I think that Jim Lovell must be the one true "story-teller" amoung the former Apollo astronauts. That virtue plus his inclusion of the Misiion Control transcripts from Apollo 13 make this story stand out from the rest (it also doesn't hurt to have an amazing story to tell like the near disaster of Apollo 13!). If you're like me and think that the people in Mission Control and their roles are as important as the astronouts, than you'll love this book. Read this before any of the other astronaut stories and I'll bet that you agree that this is the best one...
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Summary: Better than fiction!
Review: Not sure what I expected, but this book was more gripping than any fictional novel I've ever read. The fact that it really happened simply adds to the appeal. Though it's a 'true story', it is written in the style of an adventure novel and, while this seemed strange at first, it really worked in the end. I was so disappointed when I reached the end - it's not like there's a sequal! I went on a shopping spree after this and bought dozens of books through Amazon, all about the Apollo program. Makes for interesting reading!
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Summary: Better than fiction!
Review: Not sure what I expected, but this book was more gripping than any fictional novel I've ever read. The fact that it really happened simply adds to the appeal. Though it's a 'true story', it is written in the style of an adventure novel and, while this seemed strange at first, it really worked in the end. I was so disappointed when I reached the end - it's not like there's a sequal! I went on a shopping spree after this and bought dozens of books through Amazon, all about the Apollo program. Makes for interesting reading!
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