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A Successful Failure: An Apollo 13 Story About Staying Calm When Everything Goes Wrong
Paperback
Series: The Brave Inside, Book 6
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 26 2026
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.13 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In April 1970, a quarter of a million miles from home, an oxygen tank exploded - and the third mission to the Moon became a desperate race to bring three astronauts home alive.
This is the true story of Apollo 13 - and of the young people in Mission Control who saved it. When everything went wrong at once, a frightened young engineer named Marty remembered what his father had taught him beside a broken model rocket: don't panic, and don't try to fix it all at once. Work the problem. One small step at a time.
A Successful Failure is a true space story for ages 7-10 (and space- and history-loving older readers) about calm, teamwork, and the quiet courage of staying and thinking. It explains what really happened-the explosion, the lunar-module lifeboat, the famous square peg in a round hole fix made with a sock and some tape-and why a mission that never reached the Moon is remembered as a triumph.
- Real history, told with wonder: Apollo 13, Mission Control, and the cleverest rescue in the history of space
- A different kind of brave: courage isn't only charging in - sometimes it's staying calm and thinking when everything goes wrong
- The sixth book in The Brave Inside, with a The History Is Real fact page and a discussion guide
For young readers who love space, rockets, and true stories of everyday courage.
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