Apollo 13 The Junior Novelization Author:Dino Anastasio (Adapter) On the thirteenth minute of the thirteenth hour, the thirteenth Apollo mission was launched. A million things could have gone wrong. On April thirteenth, one did .... — Now, more than 200,000 miles away from home, astronaut Jim Lovell's ship is dying. His crew's one hope for survival: to use their tiny lunar landing module as a lifeboat..... more ». and pray that they can make it back to Earth, alive.« less