INTRODUCTION Apollo 13‚ the 1995 motion picture directed by Ron Howard‚ is the true story of Jim Lovell‚ Fred Haise‚ and Jack Swigert‚ a team of astronauts reassigned to a space flight with diminished preparation time. This routine mission to the moon suddenly becomes a survival mission to safely return home to Earth. The film details the circumstances affecting two separate but cohesive teams. The purpose of this case analysis is to identify the critical events‚ explain the underlying causes of
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Apollo 13 The film‚ Apollo 13‚ is based on the real-life crisis that occurred April 13‚ 1970 on board the Apollo spacecraft. The two main characters‚ Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) and Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) are the key players who will address how a leader is able to survive and thrive in a world in which unexpected events occur on a regular basis. They portray the effective styles of leadership in balance with their ever changing surroundings‚ as well as their ability to maintain their interpersonal
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“Houston we have a problem” (Lovell). These are the words Commander Jim Lovell shared with mission control when terror struck the spacecraft two hundred thousand miles into its journey to the Moon. On board Apollo 13‚ along with Commander Jim Lovell‚ were Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert‚ and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise (Kluger). After given a command from Houston to turn on the hydrogen and oxygen tank stirring fans‚ the spacecraft’s Service Module exploded followed by loss of electrical power
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The Apollo 13 exploration objective was to land in the Fra Mauro Area of the moon‚ but a sudden oxygen tank explosion prevented the spacecraft from landing‚ and facilitated changes to be made to the space program. To make interstellar travel believable NASA was created. The Apollo program was the idea that man could travel‚ walk upon‚ and see the moon. Apollo 13‚ the third human lunar landing and exploration mission‚ had been tentatively scheduled in July 1969 for launch
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The three astronauts is planing to go the moon with Apollo 13 spaceship in 1970. They are Alan Shepard‚ Fred Haise‚ Ken Mattingly. Apollo trips plan was change at that time because Alan Shepard have a problem with one of his ears and he can’t go on Apollo 13. So Jim Lovell took his place. They have their own responsibility‚ Ken is the command module pilot‚ Fred and Jim are lunar module pilots. The command module is home for astronauts on space and small lunar module use when astronauts down to the
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Green Team Apollo 13 Case Analysis The primary questions and issues you debated and discussed (i.e.‚ what did your team think was most relevant about the case?). First‚ the green team discussed the success of the mission. We had a split jury on whether or not we thought the mission was successful. Both sides of the argument were well supported and we agreed to disagree with the following conclusions: one side took the stance that the mission was not successful because they did not make it to the
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The movie Apollo 13 stared‚ Tom Hanks (Jim Lovell) Bill Paxton (Fred Haise)‚ Gary Sinise (Ken Mattingly) and Kevin Bacon (Jack Sivigert) . The movie was directed by Ron Howard and is based on the book “Lost Moon” by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. This was America third trip to the moon and Apollo 13 mission was to land in the Fra Mauro area of the moon. Two day before launch Mattingly was scrubbed from the mission after being exposed to measles. He was replaced by Jack Swigert (kevin Bacon)
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Case Study 9/13/2011 Zach Newcomb “Leadership in Apollo 13” There are certain events in our lifetime that change who we are as a person and how we view life. During the movie Apollo 13‚ Jim Lovell has a dream that he will walk on the moon. His dream becomes a reality when is promoted to commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon. After a series of dangerous events‚ the crew finds themselves in a struggle to stay alive. Jim and Houston control works around the clock to find a solution to the
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A Self Reflection: While working on the communication project‚ we were fortunate to have had Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13” movie for reference to comprehend the complexity the team faced upon the incident that befell the mission. Both Gene Kranz (Lead Flight Director and Project Manager) and Jim Lovell (Apollo’s commander) maintained absolute control of a chaotic situation. While the team was becoming intractable‚ Kranz reigned in by channeling the ideas with “one at a time people” and asking his engineers
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Apollo 13 was overall a very accurate movie‚ scientifically and factually. Of course there were things changed in order to advance the story and make the movie more interesting‚ but most of these things were very small. Apollo 13 was an Apollo mission that came after the first landing on the moon. The problem was that since the United States had already beaten Russia to the moon people weren’t sure why they needed to go back‚ so there were less resources and money going into this mission. The
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