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NASA Mission AS-508 Apollo 13 Owners' Workshop Manual: 1970 (including Saturn V, CM-109, SM-109, LM-7) - An engineering insight into how NASA saved the crew of the crippled Moon mission Hardcover – June 23, 2020

by Dr. David Baker (Author)
4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
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A special new edition of the Apollo 13 Owners' Workshop Manual, this book is published to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Moon mission launched in April 1970, which very nearly turned into a catastrophe. New content includes an expanded look at what was learned from the analysis of the problems that precipitated the crisis, and how these lessons affected the future space programme. The book also looks at the worldwide reaction to the crisis, as the the international community held its breath.

This Haynes Manual tells the story of the complex technical challenges involved in returning the crippled spacecraft safely to Earth, explained in detail by an expert author who was there through it all in Mission Control during the six-day flight. It is also the story of three very special heroes, the crew members of Apollo 13: Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise. The engaging text provides fascinating technical insight, using material from the NASA archives and the author's own personal collection, which follows the timeline of the flight to explain the unfolding drama and the analysis and work carried out both in the spacecraft and on Earth to find a way to return the astronauts safely home.
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    216 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Haynes Publishing UK
  5. Publication date
    June 23, 2020
  6. Dimensions
    8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1785217305
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1785217302
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Apollo 13 stands ready for flight at Launch Complex 39A for NASA’s third landing in nine months, to a place on the Moon of great scientific interest. (NASA)

Fred Haise chats with close-out crew in the White Room at the end of the access arm. At centre, bound checklist in hand, is Günter Wendt, who had been helping astronauts into their spacecraft from the beginning of the space programme. A German-American, Günter retired in 1989, and died on 3 May 2010, aged 86 years. (NASA-KSC)

An Apollo spacecraft in the thermal vacuum chamber at the Manned Spacecraft Center, now the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, located in building 32. It is 55ft (16.8m) in diameter and 90ft (27.4m) high, and is where Apollo spacecraft were exposed to a thermal and vacuum environment they would encounter during flight, simulating exposure to the cold of space and the heat of the Sun. (NASA-JSC)

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About the Author

Dr. David Baker worked with NASA on the Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle programmes between 1965 and 1990. He has written more than 100 books on space flight, aviation and military technology. In October 2017 he received the American Astronautical Society's Frederick I. Ordway III award "for a sustained excellence in space coverage, through books, articles, as well as engagement in the early US space program." Dr. Baker is the author of the Haynes NASA Space Shuttle Manual, International Space Station Manual, NASA Mars Rovers Manual, Apollo 13 Manual, Soyuz Manual, Rocket Manual and Hubble Space Telescope Manual. David is currently the Editor of Spaceflight, the monthly space news magazine of the British Interplanetary Society, of which he is a Fellow, and he lives in East Sussex.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Haynes Publishing UK; Anniversary edition (June 23, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1785217305
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1785217302
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 117 ratings

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F. Scott Wood
5.0 out of 5 stars The author was involved in Mission Control on Apollo 13
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2020
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Book has lots of informative photographs and diagrams about the spacecraft systems involved & detailed text about how their loss or function was managed to ensure astronaut survival. Can say there is at least one directly relevant illustration on every page. That the author was a NASA employee involved in Mission Control's rescue efforts on the Apollo 13 mission is of fundamental importance. I found text of a 2018 interview of him by the BBC's "Sky at Night" magazine. A British citizen, he ended up in the US working for NASA via a scholarship program. The interview is well worth finding and reading, as is this book. Among its features I like, the book has a couple appendices which go well in to the structure and equipment of the command module and the lunar module.
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Jeff Capo
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2021
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Great book!! Really enjoyed it!!
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AJ Farnsworth
5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2021
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Del as promised
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thomas fenzel
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
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Daryl Carpenter
4.0 out of 5 stars Farewell, Haynes...
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2021
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Since I already wrote a fairly detailed review of the original edition of this book right after it was published, I'll avoid boring the reader by rehashing all of the points I've already made. The 50th-anniversary edition contains all of the material already included in the 2013 release, plus two brief chapters totaling 18 pages, which focus on world reaction, the investigations into the cause of the accident, and changes implemented into future Apollo CSMs. It also has a proper stitched binding this time around, rather than the awful glued ones Haynes used to insist upon. It's still the most detailed of the six Apollo manuals Haynes published; every page is brimming with NASA jargon, technical details and asides, diagrams, telemetry readouts, photographs, and flight plan pages. Even though David Baker is definitely more of a "sentence assembler" than a writer, there's enough raw detail here to keep serious space buffs satisfied for a while.

As Haynes has recently decided to unceremoniously pull the plug on future titles in their "Owners' Workshop Manual" series, leaving a number of talented writers high and dry, and killing some potentially fascinating books just months before publication, I'm writing this review with some sadness. I've purchased more than 100 Haynes titles in the last eight years and this is almost certainly going to be the last. There are few things more frustrating than being a loyal customer for years, only to have one of your favorite product lines dropped without a good explanation. It's even more frustrating knowing that the folks over at Haynes actually read my reviews and would sometimes listen to my criticisms. Thankfully, Crecy Publishing UK will be publishing expanded versions of two of Dr. Baker's aborted Haynes books (on the Saturn I/IB and F-111) and an expanded edition of his X-15 "manual" later this year. As for Haynes's other writers, we'll just have to wait and see.

If you already own the 2013 edition, you don't REALLY need this edition. If you don't, it's definitely worth owning if you're seriously interested in the technical aspects of Apollo. Just don't get attached to the publisher as I did!
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John Lopez
3.0 out of 5 stars Perfect addition to collection, But…
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2023
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Great book however it arrived with the lower cover having impact damage due to the light packaging it was shipped in.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Perfect addition to collection, But…
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2023
Great book however it arrived with the lower cover having impact damage due to the light packaging it was shipped in.
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France Larose
5.0 out of 5 stars Nasa Apollo 13
Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2021
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Livre très informatif, bien documenté
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Andy
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent incredibly detailed book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2022
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Having watched the film and read the book of the film, I thought I knew all there was to know about the astonishing Apollo 13 rescue. Not so! This Haynes manual really does fill in any gaps and thoroughly explains everything, whilst keeping the story readable & exciting.

How is this possible? Simple - the author, David Baker, was there, working in the Houston control room and helping keeping the astronauts alive. A lot of the illustrations come from his original highly detailed Flight Plan and the whole book really does cover all bases.

Don't bother with the other Apollo 13 books - this is the definitive one and I doubt it can ever be bettered.
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Ralph Conway
5.0 out of 5 stars Kam aus UK mit einiger Verspätung.
Reviewed in Germany on December 12, 2021
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Aber das Buch kam, Zustand neuwertig zu einem super Preis.
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Carmen
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfecto
Reviewed in Spain on December 26, 2020
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Vino con un pequeño desperfecto y, como era para regalo, lo comentamos y sin problemas nos lo cambiaron en muy poco tiempo. El libro es genial.
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Mr Peter Boyce
5.0 out of 5 stars Item rec'd intadt, more great reading
Reviewed in Australia on January 10, 2024
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