If you are even tangentially interested in the Apollo program, or by extension Apollo 13, I can strongly recommend the book "Apollo 13", formerly sold as "Lost Moon", by Jim Lovell and Jeff Kluger.
The book briefly outlines Lovells early life and career as a test pilot up to the Gemini and Apollo programs, and the Apollo 8 mission before spending the bulk of the book recounting Apollo 13.
Even on the earlier missions and programs, the book is full of interesting tidbits, anecdotes and explanations. Particularly with Apollo 13 it is IMO quite gripping to read about the myriad of issues that came up and how they were discussed and dissected on the ground to systematically come up with a viable solution.
From the movie adaptation, I guess one of the more commonly know issues was the LiOH CO2 scrubber, where the CSM canisters didn't fit into the LEM. While apparently a lot less dramatic in real life, there were tons of other issues that the movie glossed over, from accidentally loosing navigation data while moving over from one computer to the other, the two course correction burns that were needed, exploding lead-acid batteries on the LEM, etc...
Anyway, as I said before, it's IMO a good read and I can strongly recommend the book.
Another recommendatation in a similar vein: The Brady Heywood Podcast's Apollo 13 series [1]. It's almost 6 hours in total, includes a lot of original voice recordings and explains a lot about what's going on in the background. Really worth a listen if you're into podcasts :)
13 Minutes to the moon is a Apollo 11 deep dive done by the BBC, with a Hans Zimmer soundtrack. The podcast series focuses on the last 13 minutes of descent in Apollo 11, but does a deep background story to explain the whole Apollo missions, the astronauts involved as well as the behind the scenes stories of mission control.
Nothing groundbreaking or new, just a solid retelling of the Apollo story from interviews or recordings.
The book briefly outlines Lovells early life and career as a test pilot up to the Gemini and Apollo programs, and the Apollo 8 mission before spending the bulk of the book recounting Apollo 13.
Even on the earlier missions and programs, the book is full of interesting tidbits, anecdotes and explanations. Particularly with Apollo 13 it is IMO quite gripping to read about the myriad of issues that came up and how they were discussed and dissected on the ground to systematically come up with a viable solution.
From the movie adaptation, I guess one of the more commonly know issues was the LiOH CO2 scrubber, where the CSM canisters didn't fit into the LEM. While apparently a lot less dramatic in real life, there were tons of other issues that the movie glossed over, from accidentally loosing navigation data while moving over from one computer to the other, the two course correction burns that were needed, exploding lead-acid batteries on the LEM, etc...
Anyway, as I said before, it's IMO a good read and I can strongly recommend the book.