Jeffrey Kluger Whitman Bassow Award for "best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues" for their work on global warming. Kluger has authored numerous books, most notably "Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13" (October 1994), with coauthor Jim Lovell. "Lost Moon" would become the basis for the Ron Howard film "Apollo 13" (1995) starring Tom Hanks. Kluger would later be a technical consultant for, and appear in, the movie "Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience". His other books about the space program are: His other works include: Jeffrey Kluger Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954) is a senior writer at "Time" magazine
Apollo 17 backup crew of Apollo 14) would become prime crew of the mission. NASA Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton ultimately assigned the backup crew of Apollo 14 (Cernan and Evans), along with Schmitt, to the prime crew of Apollo 17. The Apollo 15 prime crew received the backup assignment since this was to be the last lunar mission and the backup crew would not rotate to another mission. However, when the Apollo 15 postage stamp incident became public in early 1972 the crew was reprimanded by NASA and the United States Air Force (they were active duty officers). Director