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    May 14, 2020 4 minutes

    Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual

    It’s back: a 50th-anniversary reprint with all-new content

    This is as much a history book as an actual ‘owners’ manual’

    ■ Author: David Baker

    ■ Publisher: Haynes

    ■ Price: £22.99 (approx. $28.40)

    ■ Release: Out now

    You couldn’t really find a more qualified person to write this Haynes manual: author David Baker isn’t just any old physicist and engineer; he was actually there in NASA’s mission control room in 1970, working on getting the crew of Apollo 13 safely back to Earth. He’s also an award-winning journalist who’s written well over 100 books on all facets of space science and exploration. Since

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