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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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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“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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necessarily related to the relationship. In the movie ’Apollo 13’ this situation of disagreement occurs two days before the launch. When the flight surgeon Dr.Chuck predicts that Ken Mattingly (one of the three members of the Astronaut team) may get serious illness during their expedition‚ Jim Lovell (captain of the team) disagree the idea of replacement of Ken with Jack Swigert. After listening to the flight surgeon and NASA director‚ Jim finally agrees with their decision as it is best for everyone
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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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night of August 13‚ 1970 a spark from the exposed wires caused a fire‚ which ripped apart one oxygen tank and damaged the other inside the Odyssey‚ spacecraft. The astronauts were losing oxygen fast. In our project we had to find a solution to get the ping pong ball from one side of the gap to the other. Some similarities with Apollo 13 and our project was that we all had to find a solution of a problem and we all had one chance. These similarities are important to the success of Apollo 13 and our team
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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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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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Introduction During the Apollo 13 mission‚ the crew was faced with odds that were not in their favor. They were faced with many uncertainties that would possibly be fatal if they went wrong. It all started when a crew member stirred the o2 tanks‚ and the tanks burst. With this predicament‚ they could not possibly land on the moon. Mission Control or "Houston" had to come up with a flawless plan to get the U.S spacemen back to the Earth. How is free-fall associated in the re-entry of a spacecraft
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Apollo 13 is an American Drama Space film that depicts the real events of what happened to the actual Apollo 13 lunar mission to the moon. Apollo 13 was America’s third attempt to land on the moon‚ but instead of awaiting its arrival‚ Apollo oxygen tank exploded causing an emergency evacuation. This essay will inform you on a problem from the launch of Apollo 13‚ what they did to resolve the issue‚ and how what I would have did to prevent the problem and how I would have approached the solution to
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