Publisher's Synopsis
- A new insight, in unique Haynes Manual style, into the remarkable story of how clever, improvised engineering, remarkable teamwork and the sheer will to succeed averted a major catastrophe.
- How the crew - Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise - were able to work with Mission Control to transform the Lunar Module into a 'lifeboat'.
- The Apollo spacecraft and the Lunar Module - how they worked and a summary of the equipment and the technology behind them.
- The mission - a detailed narrative of how the flight was planned, what was expected, the aims of the mission, and what happened hour-by-hour.
- The analysis - what the post-flight investigation uncovered, and the technical design problems with the spacecraft.
- The legacy - the redesign of sections of the Apollo spacecraft, and the changes to the organisation of subsequent missions, beginning with Apollo 14.
- Extensively illustrated throughout, using material from the NASA archives, including Apollo 13 mission manuals and previously unpublished imagery.
