Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.

Describes the curse that seemed to haunt the Boston Red Sox after they traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees and could not win a World Series--until 2004.

Tells the true story of what happened on April 11, 1970, when astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert found themselves flying through space in a ship that was rapidly losing power and air.