Re: Apollo 13 book

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:22

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In article <72000@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
> "Houston, We've Had a Problem" is a NASA/Government Printing Office
> non-technical account of the Apollo 13 accident. It is about a ten
> page magazine-sized booklet.
> 
> I only know of one other "book" about the accident, that being
> "13: The Flight That Failed". I think the author was Henry S.F. Cooper...

Correct.  H,WHaP is pretty lightweight.  Cooper's book is the most detailed
treatment I've seen.  I'm not aware of any other books entirely on the
accident.

Murray&Cox's "Apollo" does a good job on Apollo 13.
-- 
"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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