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Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) Accidents Lovell, Jim Lovell, Jim Drama Risk management Space vehicle accidents Space vehicle accidents Drama Space vehicle accidents Juvenile literature Space vehicle accidents United States Space vehicle accidents United States Drama Space vehicle accidents United States Juvenile literatureNaujokaitis, Pranas T.
Summary: "In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. All eyes and cameras were on crew member Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, who was set to become the first private citizen in space. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to liftoff. But at T-plus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.124 NAUSummary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI GRASummary: Two spacecraft fuse in a hyperspace collision. Fortunately the Doctor, Romana and K-9 arrive to help. But when a crewmember is found clawed by a ferocious animal, it seems there's something even more frightening stalking the corridors. The answers lie with zoologist Professor Tryst, his CET protection machine, and a planet called Eden - the home of the ferocious Mandrels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCCole, Michael D.
Summary: A detailed account of the terrifying journey and danger involved in the near fatal mission to the Moon-- the Apollo 13-- on April 13, 1970. Describes how teamwork helped the astronauts avoid a tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.454 COLLandau, Elaine.
Summary: Describes the accidents which occurred during the space flights of the Apollo 1, Apollo 13, and Challenger, as well as the Soviet space flight accidents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.4 LANLeinbach, Michael D.
Summary: On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center was 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 rural east...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Recounts events surrounding the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, the first shuttle to carry a civilian passenger, and discusses the impact of this disaster on the United States space program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363 MCNJones, Chris.
Summary: Every time an astronaut makes the trip into space, he faces the risk of death from the slightest mechanical error or instance of bad luck. In February 2003, American astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin were on what was to be a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Station. But then the shuttle Columbia exploded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 JONNance, John J.
Summary: A passenger on a 2009 space flight, Kip Dawson faces death after a micrometeorite damages the capsule and kills the pilot, and types his epitaph on the ship's computer, unaware that his writings are being read on the Internet by a horrified public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANSummary: It had been less than a year since the first man walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight. That is until the words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded in a crippled spacecraft 205,000 miles from Earth, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE APOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Apollo 2005Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Apollo 1998Lovell, Jim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.454 LOVJones, Chris (Chris Alexander)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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Summary: When an unusual solar flare damages his space shuttle and causes astronaut Hank Henshaw and his crew--including his wife--to mutate, he blames Superman and as his surviving consciousness learns to fuse with technology he vows revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SUPSummary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI GRACooper, Henry S. F.
Summary: An examination of the Apollo 13 mission focuses on the explosion that jeopardized the astronauts' lives and NASA's efforts to prevent disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 COOKluger, Jeffrey
Summary: "A collection of stories about space missions gone wrong."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Lovell, Jim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.454 LOVRoyston, Angela.
Summary: Astronauts from the United States help Russian astronauts make repairs on the space station Mir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1900
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.12 Royston 2000Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner.
Summary: Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise blasted off for the Moon on April 11, 1970. But after a disastrous explosion damaged their spacecraft, the three men had only one goal: to get back home safely. This informational text makes space travel exciting and accessible for younger readers and features illustrations, photographs, a map, and additional Story Behind the Story facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629 ZOEGoldsmith, Kenneth.
Summary: "What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the series of Andy Warhol paintings by the same name,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013