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Story Of Apollo 13
Re-live the drama of the Apollo 13 routine mission of scientific exploration which gripped the world when a serious power supply malfunction occured putting the lives of its three astronauts in a life threatening position.
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Apollo 13
"Houston, we have a problem" were the words that sent a shiver through Mission Control when they were first heard. Apollo 13 was just a routine space flight that turned into the most remarkable story of courage, faith and ingenuity as astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) battled to survive and bring their crippled spacecraft home to earth.
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Classic Pictures Entertainment Ltd. Apollo 13 (Documentary) [1995]
Release Date: 2005-01-23, Rating Exempt,
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Green Umbrella Productions Story Of Apollo 13
Release Date: 2004-11-01, Rating Exempt,
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Universal Pictures Video Apollo 13 [1995]
Release Date: 2005-04-11, Rating Parental Guidance,
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APOLLO 13 (DOCUMENTARY) (DVD)
E author: ; publisher: GOLDS
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Penguin Readers Level 2: Apollo 13
author: Anastasio, Dina; publisher:
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Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S. Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an embryonic department run by whizz kids (such as himself), sharp engineers and technicians who had to create the Mercury mission rules and procedures from the ground up. As he says, Since there were no books written on the actual methodology of space flight, we had to write them as we went along.<p> Kranz was part of the mission control team that, in January 1961, launched a chimpanzee into space and successfully retrieved him and made Alan Shepard the first American in space in May 1961. Just two months later they launched Gus Grissom for a space orbit, John Glenn orbited Earth three times in February 1962, and in May 1963 Gordon Cooper completed the final Project Mercury launch with 22 Earth orbits. And through them all, and the many Apollo missions that followed, Gene Kranz was one of the integral inside men--one of those who bore the responsibility for the Apollo 1 tragedy and the leader of the tiger team that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts.<p> Moviegoers know Gene Kranz through Ed Harris's Oscar-nominated portrayal of him in Apollo 13, but Kranz provides a more detailed insider's perspective in his book <I>Failure Is Not an Option</I>. You see NASA through his eyes, from its primitive days when he first joined up, through the 1993 shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, his last mission control project. His memoir, however, is not high literature. Kranz has many accomplishments and honours to his credit, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but this is his first book, and he's not a polished author. There are, perhaps, more behind-the-scenes details and more paragraphs devoted to what Cape Canaveral looked like than the general public demands. If, however, you have a long-standing fascination with aeronautics, if you watched Apollo 13 and wanted more, <I>Failure Is Not an Option</I> will fit the bill. --<I>Stephanie Gold</I>
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Longman Penguin Readers Level 2: Apollo 13 (Penguin Readers S.)
Pages: 48, Paperback, Longman
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Longman Penguin Readers Level 2: Apollo 13: Book and Audio Cassette (Penguin Readers S.)
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Houghton Mifflin (Trade) Apollo 13: Anniversary Edition
Pages: 400, Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
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Mariner Books Apollo 13
Pages: 390, Paperback, Mariner Books
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an embryonic department run by whizz kids (such as himself), sharp engineers and technicians who had to create the Mercury mission rules and procedures from the ground up. As he says, Since there were no books written on the actual methodology of space flight, we had to write them as we went along.<p> Kranz was part of the mission control team that, in January 1961, launched a chimpanzee into space and successfully retrieved him and made Alan Shepard the first American in space in May 1961. Just two months later they launched Gus Grissom for a space orbit, John Glenn orbited Earth three times in February 1962, and in May 1963 Gordon Cooper completed the final Project Mercury launch with 22 Earth orbits. And through them all, and the many Apollo missions that followed, Gene Kranz was one of the integral inside men--one of those who bore the responsibility for the Apollo 1 tragedy and the leader of the tiger team that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts.<p> Moviegoers know Gene Kranz through Ed Harris's Oscar-nominated portrayal of him in Apollo 13, but Kranz provides a more detailed insider's perspective in his book <I>Failure Is Not an Option</I>. You see NASA through his eyes, from its primitive days when he first joined up, through the 1993 shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, his last mission control project. His memoir, however, is not high literature. Kranz has many accomplishments and honours to his credit, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but this is his first book, and he's not a polished author. There are, perhaps, more behind-the-scenes details and more paragraphs devoted to what Cape Canaveral looked like than the general public demands. If, however, you have a long-standing fascination with aeronautics, if you watched Apollo 13 and wanted more, <I>Failure Is Not an Option</I> will fit the bill. --<I>Stephanie Gold</I>
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Soundworks,U.S. Apollo 13: The Real Mission (Great Speeches S.)
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Apogee Books Apollo 13: The NASA Mission Reports
A dream come true for dedicated space buffs, the <I>NASA Mission Reports</I> series pulls together an almost overwhelming array of official NASA press kits, operation reports, images, CD-ROM movies, and even dinner menus from some of the space agency's most momentous missions, from <I>Gemini 6</I> to the many Mars launches.<p> Series editor Robert Godwin explains in his introduction why the failed Apollo 13 mission (later of Tom Hanks-Ron Howard fame) is particularly deserving of such detail-intensive attention: Putting aside the high drama of the events, the following documents reveal a side of NASA that is often overlooked, the talents of the management and administrators. Those talents are nowhere more evident than in the minutes from the House Science and Astronautics Committee hearing, numerous internal NASA memos, and the previously classified technical debriefing of the astronauts. Even the pre-mission materials prove interesting, explaining with extensive diagrams the many experiments that never reached the lunar surface.<p> As with the other excellent instalments in the Mission Reports series, the included CD-ROM backs up the already solid content with searchable documents and choice images and movies, including a long interview with Jim Lovell. (And while the CD works more smoothly on Windows, users on other platforms shouldn't have to work too hard accessing its many jpegs and mpegs.) <I>--Paul Hughes</I>
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Book House Avoid Being on Apollo 13! (Danger Zone S.)
Pages: 32, Paperback, Book House
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