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Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed
Written by Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
Narrated by Christopher David
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This exciting minute-by-minute account of the Apollo 13 flight is based on mission-control transcripts from Houston and dispatches written for The New Yorker.
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Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. is the author of eight books about NASA and space exploration and was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. He lives in Cooperstown, New York.
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