Beyond Apollo

Mission: Delivery of the first permanent station to the moon and putting it into operation. It should have been Go all the way. Lift-off was perfect. Moon orbit a-ok. But then Chuck Logan got sick from the weightlessness and Apollo 2 had to get back to earth fast, Big Lander, the space station was swinging in yaw, cartwheeling in the horizontal plane. A hundred million dollars' worth of complex equipment functioned perfectly, then a fifty-cent part failed. Would they have to abort? Tension mount s as Martin Clay, command pilot of Apollo 1, has to make some quick and startling decisions.