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The Apollo 13 Mission
Shooting for the moon, the Apollo 13 mission had to be aborted when an oxygen tank aboard the shuttle exploded in space. This left the astronauts with limited power, heat, and water! Watch the crew fight to survive in this graphic novel for eager readers.
24 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2014
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June 3, 2020
This mission was called a successful failure because they got the astronauts home.
November 29, 2014
Using graphic illustrations to re-tell the story of Apollo 13 lunar mission heightens the drama of one of space exploration’s most famous disasters (or, as NASA put it, “successful failure”). When a mechanical failure destroyed the three-man astronautical team’s possibility for a lunar landing, it also jeopardized the opportunity for a safe return to Earth. Slingshotting around the Moon to increase re-entry speed, jettisoning most of the spacecraft’s modules, running low on life support, and flying “blind” without a navigational system, Swigert, Haise, and Lovell astonished the world with their courage and ingenuity. Astonishingly, and against all odds, the three astronauts successfully re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and landed in the Pacific Ocean, where they were rescued.
Although the material is too brief to offer student researchers in-depth facts of the aborted Apollo 13 mission, the format does provide a thrilling introduction and re-telling of a true life tale of heroism and innovation that kept a nation, indeed the world, on tenterhooks when it happened. Reading this graphic-novel style retelling may inspire readers to conduct additional research into this incident and manages to convey some of the compelling drama that surrounded the actual events.
Although the material is too brief to offer student researchers in-depth facts of the aborted Apollo 13 mission, the format does provide a thrilling introduction and re-telling of a true life tale of heroism and innovation that kept a nation, indeed the world, on tenterhooks when it happened. Reading this graphic-novel style retelling may inspire readers to conduct additional research into this incident and manages to convey some of the compelling drama that surrounded the actual events.
December 3, 2014
A very short, minimal text depiction of the Apollo 13 Mission which upon entering space encountered major problems. It was feared the astronauts would be lost in space, but between Mission Control and the astronauts they found a way to bring them home.
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