Apollo 13: The Explosion, the Rescue, and the fight to bring Three Astronoughts Home (Critical Hours Book 4)

On 13 April 1970, more than 200,000 miles from Earth, a routine procedure triggered an explosion that changed everything.

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third Moon landing.

Instead, it became one of the greatest rescue missions in human history.

When an oxygen tank exploded deep in space, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert found themselves stranded aboard a crippled spacecraft. Their lunar landing was cancelled. Their oxygen supply was compromised. Their electrical power was disappearing.

With Earth impossibly distant, survival depended upon ingenuity, discipline, and a race against time.

As engineers in Houston worked around the clock to find solutions, the astronauts faced freezing temperatures, dwindling resources, rising carbon dioxide levels, and the terrifying uncertainty of whether their damaged spacecraft could ever bring them home.

Based on the real events of April 1970, Critical Hours: Apollo 13 takes readers inside every stage of the crisis—from the explosion that shocked Mission Control to the dramatic splashdown that captivated the world.