"A collection of stories about space missions gone wrong."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

The tale of the sinking spacecraft : Liberty Bell 7, 1961 --Spinout in space : Gemini 8, 1966 -- The terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad spacewalk : Gemini 9, 1966 -- The fire : Apollo 1, 1967 -- The unlucky mission of Soyuz 1 : Soyuz 1, 1967 -- The tumbling moonship : Apollo 10, 1969 -- The moon trip and the lightning strike : Apollo 12, 1969 -- Explosion in space : Apollo 13, 1970 -- The three lost cosmonauts : Soyuz 11, 1971 -- The lost teacher : Challenger, 1986 -- Crack-up in orbit : Mir Space Station, 1997 -- The astronaut who almost drowned in space : International Space Station, 2013.