Many problem skills had to be used and improvised during the movie‚ Apollo 13‚ but the one that amazed me was when Jim and Fred had to manually adjust the ship. I believe this held a significant amount of importance for getting the astronauts home. Everyone knew that to be able to reenter the earth’s atmosphere the ship only had a tiny amount of room for error. When NASA informed the astronauts that they needed to do another burn‚ but they don’t have enough power to start up the ship for the computers
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Apollo 13 When Gene Kranz says that it will be there finest hour‚ he was completely true. It will be the finest hour for the Apollo 13 mission. They “won” while failing‚ because a malfunction which NASA had little to no control over which looked life threatening hit the astronauts and NASA managed to overcome the problem they had been faced with. The Apollo 13 mission in general was a failure because it stood no chance of accomplishing the goal it was supposed to. The teamwork that NASA developed
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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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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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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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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 Assignment 1. • Sputnik-1 - USSR - (1957)- First artificial satellite. • Pioneer 0 - USA Lunar Orbiter - (August 17‚ 1958) -First stage exploded. • Luna 3 - USSR Lunar Far Side Flyby - (October 4‚ 1959) - First image of the Moon’s hidden side • Apollo 11 - USA Lunar Manned Lander -Apollo 11 was the first manned lunar landing‚ which took place on July 20‚ 1969 2. The Apollo 13 malfunction was caused by an explosion and rupture of oxygen tank no. 2 in the service module
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“One small step for a man‚ one giant leap for mankind” These were the first words said on the moon by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong. The Apollo program was a series of rocket launches by nasa to get us to our moon‚ starting with Apollo 1‚ and leading through to 13‚ in this essay‚ you will learn about 3 of the missions. To start‚ apollo 1 was the fateful beginning of the program. Three astronauts‚ Virgil Grissom‚ Edward white and Roger Chaffee were onboard doing a final preflight test. Under
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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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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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