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- From: higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Apollo 13 book
- Date: 21 Dec 92 11:54:35 -0600
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.115435.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>
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- In article <BzJ7ou.7tG@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- > 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.
-
- There exists a multi-volume investigatory commission report on the
- accident. I've seen it in a university library but haven't read it.
- A little work with Internet library catalogs might turn it up.
-
- There's also a made-for-TV docudrama on Apollo 13. I watched about
- twenty minutes of it once. Not too impressive. I think it is also
- called *Houston, We Have a Problem.*
-
- > Murray&Cox's "Apollo" does a good job on Apollo 13.
-
- Yup. Apollo spacecraft had a crew much larger than three... but most
- of them were not aboard.
-
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