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Apollo 13: A Successful Failure
Laura B. Edge
Illustrator: Archival photographs
Ages: 14+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books/ Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 978-1-5415-5900-4
Keywords: Apollo 13, Space Program, disaster, ingenuity, teamwork, survival
The heroic effort to return a malfunctioning spacecraft to Earth is vividly detailed within the historical framework of the U.S. space programs. Timeline, glossary, sources, bibliography.