390 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2006 by Houghton Mifflin.
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (published in paperback as Apollo 13), is a 1994 non-fiction book by astronaut Jim Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger, about the failed April 1970 Apollo 13 lunar landing mission which Lovell commanded. The book is the basis of the 1995 film adaptation Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks as Lovell. Lovell was initially approached by Kluger in 1991 about collaborating on the book. Fred Haise was not interested in the collaboration, and Jack Swigert had died of cancer in 1982.
I really liked the way this book was written. The Apollo 13 mission is a compelling story on its own, but the third-person, dramatized style made it feel almost like historical fiction—even though it’s entirely factual. It brought the events to life in a way that felt immersive and engaging. A great read!
this book promised to be a blow-by-blow account of the apollo 13 disaster, and that's exactly what it delivered. if reading about some astronauts stuck on a broken spacecraft for four days while the ground crew desperately tries to figure out how to get them back home sounds like a good time to you, I recommend this book. it's pretty rah-rah american, but that's kind of to be expected considering the subject matter.
