space vehicle accidents

Recounts tales of triumph and of trajedy in outer space, including the Apollo missions, the first space walk, the Challenger disaster, and more.

"There are so many . . . missions to outer space that have succeeded. But for every success, there are mistakes, surprises, and flat-out failures that happen along the way. In this collection . . . recounts twelve such disasters, telling the stories of the astronauts and the cosmonauts, the trials and the errors, the missions and the misses"--Provided by publisher.

Readers experience what it was like to be a member of the crew on the spacecraft Apollo 13.

Chronicles the flight of the Apollo 13 lunar flight during which NASA astronauts and engineers had to abort their mission and struggled to return the spacecraft safely to Earth after an explosion onboard.

A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.

Early readers will learn about the science behind the Challenger disaster through carefully leveled text and photo illustrations.

"A historical account--including eyewitness quotes--of the devastating 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and its effect on NASA's programs, ending with how the disaster is memorialized today"--.

Presents the story of the Apollo 13 mission and how they survived an explosion on the spacecraft.

"Mike Leinbach was the launch director of the space shuttle program when Columbia disintegrated on reentry before a nation's eyes on February 1, 2003. And it would be Mike Leinbach who would be a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history"--Jacket flap.

Explains the Apollo 13 crisis, including its chronology, causes, and lasting effects.