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Apollo 13

Jim Lovell

Recounts how after only fifty hours into its flight to the moon, the Apollo 13 space ship was rocked by an explosion, and tells how the ship was brought under control, and the crew safely returned to

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Apollo 13

Contains seventeen excerpts from communications between Apollo 13 astronauts and NASA, including the well-known announcement "Houston, we have a problem," and features President Kennedy's 1961 "To the

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Thirteen, the Apollo Flight That Failed

Henry S. F. Cooper

Tells the story of the Apollo XIII mission to the moon in April of 1970 during which an explosion disabled both engines on the command module and crippled the life-support system, forcing ground contr

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"what Do You Care What Other People Think?"

Richard Phillips Feynman

Richard Feynman recounts his life with his late wife and discusses his involvement in the investigation of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.

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