When a violent explosion tore through the fragile skin of the Apollo 13 spacecraft 200,000 miles from earth in April 1970, NASA mounted the most dramatic rescue mission in the history of human exploration. For the first time, Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell and Fred Haise, and their flight controllers, reveal just how close they came to disaster, the devastating extent of the damage, and the inside story of how human ingenuity overcame adversity. This is the ultimate survival story, in which three people’s lives hung by a thread, with oxygen running out, hundreds of thousands of miles out in space.