Apollo 13 james lovell pdf

The earliest date in the book is in chapter three, which is Spring , where Jim Lovell is in Chicago to buy chemicals to make a rocket for his chemistry class.

In the prologue, it starts during the mission around the time that one of the oxygen tanks exploded, which could have been fixed before takeoff because oxygen tank two had a slight problem during testing.

The explosion happened a bit after the astronauts had turned off their first broadcast of the mission, so the public did not know of the failure until later on. After they had reported the explosion, the control center tried their best to help diminish the problem until they could find a solution. She always had to put up with moving around a lot when he was a lieutenant and had to raise her children alone sometimes when he was in space, so Marilyn was my favorite character because she had to go through some really tough times.

My favorite part of the book is the splashing down of the spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean because Marilyn could finally relax, since her husband was safety returning back home. A certain scene that was written particularly well was the prologue because it started at the time of the explosion on Apollo 13, so it had me wanting to read more to find out how it ended. That certain part of the book had me guessing because they could have ended up orbiting the Earth to just go back to the moon and again back to Earth in a continuous neverending cycle.

The one thing I dislike the most about the book was the order of the chapters. I like to read a bunch of different things, but I would like for them to be in chronological order. For example, the beginning of the book starts on Monday, April 13, during P. Houston time which was the around the time that one of the oxygen tanks exploded.

After the prologue, the first chapter starts in January 27 of The author probably intended to draw in readers by having a bit of the mission where it started to fail in the beginning of the book because it could have the readers wanting to read more to find out how that event ended. To be honest, I did want to continue reading more of the book after the prologue, but the hype for it eventually died down until chapter five where it finally went back the events during the mission.

I sometimes found it difficult to not care for a main character because they either had too much of the center attention or did not. The book was too focused on the mission for my liking, even though the book is suppose to be centered around the mission, because I am not fully invested into learning about all the detail in space missions. I gave this book only a three star rating because I was interested in some plots, but some others were a bit lacking.

I could have given the rating a four since I was debating between a three or four; however, I found myself almost falling asleep in some parts of the book and would sometimes lose my place in the book by getting distracted from other things. Even though I found some plot points lacking in excitement, overall I did enjoy reading this book because I knew the basics of how the Apollo 13 mission went and I wanted to learn more of the background behind it. I would recommend this book to people who are interested in science or space because the book is centered around the life of Jim Lovell, an astronaut, leading up to, during, and after the Apollo 13 mission.

Nov 14, Jamie Collins rated it really liked it Shelves: history-and-biography , american-history , space-program. The book is about as technically detailed as could reasonably be expected to hold the interest of a lay audience.

Ken Mattingly, who never did get the measles, served in the movie as a composite for the many people on the ground who worked on tests and simulations to figure out how to bring the astronauts home safely.

The technical challenges and the efforts to overcome them are thoroughly described. The book has several black-and-white photos, mostly of people.

Dec 07, Tom Evers rated it it was amazing. This book goes into extreme detail about what happened, and it does it while still making it interesting. This book, as the title shows, is about the NASA mission Apollo 13, which, on the way to the moon, had an oxygen tank explosion and the crew was unable to land on the moon. One of the things that I think makes this book really cool, along with allows it to be so in-depth facts wise, is the fact the it was written by the commander of the mission, with the help of someone who I think was part of mission control during the mission.

Mission control is basically just the guys on Earth who monitor the condition of the crew and ship. I really enjoyed this book, and almost couldn't put it down when once I started reading it, but I probably would not recommend this to most of the people in my grade, because I know most of them aren't as interested in space, and especially not as interested in Apollo 13 as I am, but I would recommend this book to anyone who thinks it sounds kind of interesting.

Jul 17, Callee rated it it was ok. Oh my goodness!! This book was way more in depth than I was prepared for. More information than I really cared for.

I did like learning about what happen with Apollo 1 and his Apollo 8 flight where they orbited the moon for the first time. And I was very impressed at how much the movie Apollo 13 stuck with the actual events. Some of the dialog in the movie came straight from mission logs.

I really appreciated how close the movie stayed true. I know they can't fit in everything and need to change Oh my goodness!! I know they can't fit in everything and need to change things around but they did a good job of it.

But all the other backstory stuff was just too long and detailed for me. It didn't help that I felt like the author was trying really hard to show off his writing skills. It just seemed like he would take an entire paragraph to say what could fit into a sentence or 2.

I'm sure there are major space enthusiasts that eat this all up but it just wasn't for me. I mainly skipped chapters with back stories read the ones that had to do with actual missions. This is one of those books where the story is more interesting than the writing. In my opinion, the book was more technical than the lay man could understand in some parts, particularly in discussing what went wrong or what they think went wrong. At the same time, I didn't really feel the emotion of the individuals during the plight from this book.

I KNEW they must have been crapping their pants, because that's what I would have been doing, but the book somehow is very detached to the emotions This is one of those books where the story is more interesting than the writing. I KNEW they must have been crapping their pants, because that's what I would have been doing, but the book somehow is very detached to the emotions of the people, something that I don't know whether to applaud or not, to be honest.

The combination o the two, being overly technical and unemotional, made me feel like I was reading something more akin to a logbook than a novel. Not really sure if it's because this is non-fiction or because the author, one of the astronauts, didn't want to be biased one way or the other. Nov 22, P. Winn rated it it was amazing. Great story that takes readers back to , a different time in our world and reminds us of what we in America were striving to do. The mission goes terribly wrong and a nation waited and watched as te crew fights for survival using some innovative methods to conquer the challenge.

Very technical, slow reading. For once, I think the movie was better than the book!! Although I grew up and lived through many of the initial phases of space exploration, I have never been much of a fan of the effort. I was interested in science but as I was aware of the amount of money spent to explore space I began to think that the money would be better spent making life on earth better. I remember standing outside I had a farm in New York with my grandfather watching the sputnik blink across the sky.

I remembered when the three astronauts burned to death in a capsule on the g Although I grew up and lived through many of the initial phases of space exploration, I have never been much of a fan of the effort.

I remembered when the three astronauts burned to death in a capsule on the ground during a training session. I remember that because there was a plaque commemorating the three on the engineering campus of the University of Michigan when I was in school there because one of the men killed was an engineering graduate of the school. I remember the explosion of the Challenger. But I am just not a fan.

The major events of this book took place in a short four days in This book includes considerable personal history of James Lovell. It covered a lot of territory beyond those four days. The last hour of the audible book explained what they figure it out after the fact about what manufacturing and parts failure actually caused the explosion and the resulting space emergency.

The book makes a serious effort to literally re-create many of the moments that the three men experienced in their small spaceship as people back on earth worked To figure out how they could get these three men back home under some amazingly difficult circumstances.

Dec 05, Lost Planet Airman rated it really liked it Shelves: adventure-shelf , sffbc-tbr , src-ineligible. Proud to have this on my bookshelves. Great approach to the history and the people behind the real-life adventure.

Read it in one afternoon, review to come shortly. Great read! I recently read 'Failure is Not an Option' by Gene Kranz, who you might recall was on duty at Mission Control at the time that Apollo 13 experienced that first explosion that would bring three men in space Read it in one afternoon, review to come shortly.

I recently read 'Failure is Not an Option' by Gene Kranz, who you might recall was on duty at Mission Control at the time that Apollo 13 experienced that first explosion that would bring three men in space dangerously close to death. Both books are fantastic and offer great insights into the same story, albeit with very different experiences. This one has been on my to-read list for quite a while, but something was always stopping me from reading it.

I wanted to, so badly. However, Apollo 13 has long been one of my favorite movies from childhood and I was terribly afraid that if I were to read Jim Lovell's account of what actually happened, I'd be sorely disappointed to find out Tom Hanks lied to me and the story didn't go as depicted.

But eventually my need to know all things Apollo y, I decided to dive right in. I was NOT disappointed. Not in the least. Something I enjoyed that I didn't realize I would, is that we are not only given the play-by-play account from The Man himself, Jim Lovell, but were also taken back to his early days in the program - and even further back to see how his love of rockets began.

It also looks at his time in college and then finally joining the space program and its early days. He then recounts for the reader the tragic event of Apollo 1 that could easily have derailed the entire program forever. This is just as much a biography of Lovell as it is a biography of the doomed mission that will always be recognized by the now-famous line, "Houston, we have a problem.

The past tense doesn't make it sound nearly as dire or desperate. So, there's a little Hollywood meddling for you. But anyway, as I was saying, I was very happy as I read to find that much of what actually occurred was to be found in the movie.

Now naturally there was no way to account for and portray every character, and Mattingly Gary Sinise played a much bigger role in the movie it seemed than the book, but the movie really did a great job of telling the story without compromising for Hollywood.

As I was reading, scenes from he movie would be playing in my head as I read something I was familiar with and it was nice to see that mirror image. As Swigert got the call to stir the tanks, I found myself shouting at him not to. Sadly, he could not hear me! One thing that I always enjoyed from the movie was the scene where Tom Hanks finally gets annoyed with the NASA doctor and rips off his electrodes so he is no longer being monitored. This scene was totally anti-climactic in real life and was done with little fanfare, and not much freaking out by those in Houston.

In real life, he removed the electrodes and it took a few minutes for Lovell to even be asked about it, to which he simply responded that he no longer had them on.

That's that. Additionally, on the inside covers Lovell chose to include a diagram detailing the Aquarius and Odyssey and their components, as well as a step by step timeline of events as they occurred. Appendix A goes into further detail about the Mission timeline, and the remaining two Appendices then detail NASA employees both involved in the Apollo 13 rescue, and all manned Apollo missions before and after.

I highly recommend this one, whether you have an interest in space or not. It is about so much more than that. It is about the struggle to survive against the odds, to trust those who are thousands of miles away, but might as well be millions, to do their job and bring you home. It is told in such a way that the reader does not feel they have to be a rocket man to understand what is going on. Even at its most technical, I was not overwhelmed by the vast amounts of technology and jargon - and a lot of lines said in the movie now make a lot more sense - gimbal lock, anyone?

If you don't love Tom Hanks, you might be a terrorist. Sep 27, Ann rated it it was amazing Shelves: science-medicine. I absolutely devoured this book. Like many of the other reviewers, I had seen the movie and enjoyed it as a nice piece of cinema. But over time, I began to wonder more and more what had really happened. A Goodreads recommendation led me to this book, and I was hooked from page 1.

Even though I knew how it all turned out, I was chewing my fingernails! The story itself is well-known : an explosion rocked Apollo 13, the intended moon landing was aborted, the astronauts found shelter in the cramped I absolutely devoured this book. The story itself is well-known : an explosion rocked Apollo 13, the intended moon landing was aborted, the astronauts found shelter in the cramped lunar module for the rest of the flight, and much creative engineering was needed to help the damaged craft limp home.

I was interested in finding out more. I enjoyed the book for several reasons : 1. I had to admit that, having little sense of 3-D orientation, I didn't always understand the specifics of the issues of navigation in space, or orienting the space craft. The dangers of not enough water, not enough electricity, too much carbon dioxide were easier to understand, and I enjoyed looking over the engineers' shoulders as they figured out the ways to fix the problems.

Reading about creativity and ingenuity is fun, and this book had that stuff in spades. I learned a lot about how all of this worked, how one group of people would figure out what needed to be done, a second group how that could be done, and then a third group would simulate the proposed solution in the various simulators in Houston. Then the instructions would be read through the radio to the astronauts in Apollo 13, who would then float through their cramped, chilly capsule to push buttons, throw switches, connect wires.

It is written in the third person. Discussions about people's emotions are kept to a minimum. I rather applaud that. I can easily imagine what the astronauts must have felt upon knowing they might not return home, or how the wives must have felt. It's not necessary to spell out the obvious. Here and there some of it was sprinkled through the text, but it was never too much. I assume that the transcription had cleaned up the "uhms" and "you knows" that punctuate typical speech, because it all read suspiciously fluent.

At the same time, it was incomprehensible jargon. Still, these exchanges gave the reader a sense of how intense, focused and technical the discussions were. Not a lot of chitchat here! These sections gave me a chilling sense of being there. In my humble opinion, this story belongs in the ranks of the Greatest Adventures, right there with the trip of the Kon-Tiki, the expedition to find the sources of the Nile and the discovery of America.

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Minutes after the explosion, the three astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days.

As the hours tick away, Watch Apollo 13 online - download Apollo 13 - on - 1Channel. Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert were sc.