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 program engine was more severe, preventing it from restarting for trans-lunar injection. Mission controllers were able to use the service-module engine to essentially repeat the flight profile of Apollo 4. Based on the good performance of Apollo 6 and identification of satisfactory fixes to the Apollo 6 problems, NASA declared the Saturn V ready to fly men, cancelling a third unmanned test. Apollo 7, launched from LC-34 on October 11, 1968, was the C mission, crewed by Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham. It was an 11-day Earth-orbital flight which tested the CSM systems. Apollo 8 was planned to be the D mission