Apollo 13: The Nasa Mission Reports - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1896522556 ISBN 13 : 9781896522555

Editeur : Collector's Guide Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

CD-ROM and Book. Homer himself could not have written a more captivating story than the flight of Apollo 13. On 11 April 1970 veteran astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew mates Jack Swigert and Fred Haise rode atop the ill-fated journey to the moon. The aptly named command module Odyssey and the reluctant lunar module lifeboat Aquarius were to take the three men to a date with the lunar highland area known as Fra Mauro but fate and a faulty circuit in one of the vehicle's oxygen tanks would irrevocably alter their plans and turn the flight of Apollo 13 into an epic to rival the original Odyssey. After an explosion in the service module crippled the spacecraft while it was still outward bound, the crew would spend several harrowing days in near frigid temperatures while the technicians at home worked around the clock to devise new and ingenious ways to keep them alive and bring them home safely. In 1970 some considered Apollo 13 a catastrophic failure but it has since been recognised as one of NASA's truly great moments, when the spirit of daring and ingenuity came to life in the team at Mission Control as they successfully brought the crew home. Some of the rare official documentation of the voyage of Apollo 13 is collected and made commercially available for the first time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Godwin is the author and editor of dozens of books about space flight and science fiction. He produced the first ever virtual reality panoramas of the Apollo lunar surface photography and the first multi-camera move of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk. He was the Space Curator at the Canadian Air Space Museum in Toronto and he co-produced the movie 2001: The Science of Futures Past.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Collector's Guide Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1896522556
• ISBN 13: 9781896522555
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Godwin Robert
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible