Houston, We've Had a Problem: The History of the Apollo 13 Mission

*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the mission written by the astronauts and members of Mission Control*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“The only experiment we completed on Apollo 13 was not on the original mission list.” – James Lovell, Jr.In the summer of 1969, Apollo 11 successfully landed men on the Moon for the first time in history, and Apollo 12 successfully landed astronauts on the Moon just a few months after Apollo 11’s successful mission. Apollo 12 was actually more successful than Apollo 11 from the standpoint of fulfilling the mission objectives, but it was naturally overshadowed since it did not come first.Another reason Apollo 12 is mostly forgotten today can be credited to the dramatic and fateful Apollo 13 mission, which took twists and turns nobody could have predicted when it launched on April 11, 1970. Apollo 13’s mission was to land on the Moon near the Fra Mauro highlands, which were hills that had