Surviving a Space Disaster: Apollo 13

Surviving a Space Disaster: Apollo 13 book cover — ALTERNATOR BOOKS SURVIVING A SPACE DISASTER APOLLO 13 BENJAMIN TUNBY Lerner Publications Minneapolis

Surviving a Space Disaster: Apollo 13 — page 1 — INTRODUCTION DISASTER IN SPACE Jim Lovell Fred Haise and Jack Swigert soared through space at thousands of miles per hour They were crew members on the Apollo 13 mission to land on the moon They were all highly trained astronauts Lovell had even orbited the moon two years earlier on the Apollo 8 mission Haise and Swigert were in space for the first time But their training had prepared them for anything that might happen

Surviving a Space Disaster: Apollo 13 — page 2 — Suddenly there was an explosion on the spacecraft The crew rushed into action to find out what had happened Then they lost electrical power With a disabled spacecraft their mission was no longer to land on the moon Instead it had become a mission to survive

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