Apollo 13 question (no spoilers in OP)

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Lost Moon* was a very good book. And I don’t think the title is crappy at all.

See the documentary on the DVD to learn more about the zero gee filming.

I remember the mission. I was too young to really understand what was going on. I had this image of the astronauts in the LM, and they were holding the hatch shut with their shoulders to keep the black cloud of carbon dioxide from getting in. I was a real “space kid”, but I was still a bit light on the science. I remember that they took us into the auditorium at school and wheeled in a colour teevee so that we could watch the…

SPOILER!!!

…splashdown. :smiley:

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Actually, it’s not. It’s from a third-person narrator’s perspective, and Lovell is refered to by his name, not “I.”

It was so well written that I forgot he co-wrote it.