The actual launch of the Apollo 13 was on April 11‚ 1970. Two days into the mission it looked like the smoothest flight that the Apollo program had ever seen. "The spacecraft is in real good shape as far as we are concerned. We’re bored to tears down here." said Joe Kerwin of mission control (3). At 55 hours the crew held a TV broadcast for 49 minutes where they showed off their living conditions and how they worked in weightless situations. Nine minutes after the broadcast mission control instructed
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kApollo‚ God Of the Sun Apollo Was The More Supportive Creative one of the Gods among the numerous Greek Gods. The Birth Place of Apollo is on the sunny Greek Islands of Delos‚ Where he was born along side his sister Airtimes. Like all the other Gods Apollo Has strengths and weaknesses too‚ like a few of his strengths are he is creative‚ supportive of all earths creatures‚ and he is also handsome. Some of his weaknesses are like his father Zeus‚ Apollo is all too happy to partake in the charms
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"Apollo 13" By starring Tom Hanks‚ Apollo 13 is a American drama film based on the book of "Last Moon" by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. At the begining‚ Jim (Tom Hanks)‚ Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise) are the crew assigned to the Appllo 13 spacecraft. Their vision is to walk on the moon. However‚ few days before launching‚ Ken was informed that he could not fly because he had in exposed to the measles a week before. Jack Swigert took his place only with three days of
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Do you know what The Apollo 11 mission was ? The Apollo 11 mission was a mission to go to the moon in 1969 . Neil Armstrong‚ mission commander‚ Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin‚ lunar module pilot‚ and Michael Collins‚ command module pilot . The significance of the Apollo 11 mission where they go samples from the moon ‚ millions of people watched ‚ and that the president Richard Nixon called Neil Armstrong when he was in space . One of the significance of the Apollo 11 mission was they go samples
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“Apollo 11” Written By:John Drennan “One small step for a man‚one giant leap for mankind”-Neil Armstrong.Do you know why Apollo 11 is so important?Today I’ll be giving you three reasons why the Apollo 11 is so important. My first reason why the Apollo 11 is so important is because on May 25‚1961 president John F. Kennedy had a dream.John’s dream was to land a man on the moon and safely return him back to earth.By the year July 16‚1969 It was a few months before the launch and John F. Kennedy
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Management Strategies Lessons from Apollo 13 On April 11‚ 1970‚ just a few months after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon‚ Apollo 13 flight director Gene Kranz gives the green light from Houston’s Mission Control Center for launch. The problems with the Apollo 13 mission started as soon the rocket climbs into the sky‚ but the craft successfully reach orbit and followed its trajectory to the moon. The three astronauts responsible for the Apollo 13 mission in space were the mission commander Jim
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Apollo 11 took three astronauts on an extraordinary adventure to the moon. Their primary goal was set by John F. Kennedy to land on the moon and come back to Earth. All three astronauts had went into space before. Neil Armstrong‚ Edwin Buzz Aldrin Jr.‚ and Michael Collins. They where all main parts and important to this mission. The men were sent off in space on July 16‚ 1969 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The place they landed in was the Sea of Tranquility. A camera in the eagle watched
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The Apollo Missions was a test on mans’ limit and use of the knowledge that God gave us to see if we could land on the moon. Rushed by the Cold War‚ Scientist were antsy to get a manned rocket from this plant to our neighbor‚ the Moon. Many people look at it as the event of “the man on the moon”. I looked up more of the scientific discoveries that were made on those early missions and they were surprising to say the least! One of the questions posed by many scientists was what type of geological
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1970 Apollo 13 took flight to the moon. Fred Haise‚ Jack Swigert‚ and Jim Lovell were the three men who had the privilege to be the three astronauts that would man this flight to the moon. Days before the mission‚ the original main pilot‚ Ken Mattingly was exposed to the measles and was believed to have fallen ill‚ so back up pilot Jim Lovell was called in to replace him. Now that the crew had been assembled it was time for launch. Before the three men had taken on the challenge of Apollo 13 they
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Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins is experiencing during this 47 minutes of each lunar revolution when he’s behind the Moon with no one to talk to except his tape recorder aboard Columbia." -Apollo 11 Mission Control On July 20th‚ 1969‚ at 13:46 UTC‚ the Apollo 11 Lunar Module "Eagle"‚ separates from its parent craft‚ the Command Module "Columbia"‚ and with two of our nations finest pilots- two astronauts- aboard begins its decent toward the lunar surface. The media turns
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