Apollo 13 Analysis

There were a lot of concepts in the movie Apollo 13. More importantly, the concepts that stuck out to me during the whole movie were a successful failure, making mid-course corrections, teamwork, prioritizing, communicating and lastly assessing and planning for risk. At first I wasn’t sure that the movie was a “successful failure” but towards the end of the movie it was said that it was such. There was a failure of never reaching the moon, yet it was a success with teamwork both on and off the ship. I would have never thought that it could be possible to have such great teamwork in a failing situation.

I felt as if making mid-course corrections went along with the concept of teamwork, prioritizing and communication. After all, you did have to have all three of the aforementioned concepts in order to make mid-course corrections when there was a failure present. NASA had to improve a new mission by aborting the original mission making changes to everything. The three men were also talking together in the ship to see what their intentions are in order to make it home safe and determining how they could do so. To them, failure was not an option and even if it took bringing in their teammate who supposedly had the measles, it meant that they wanted to fix the problem and would do …show more content…
Apparently the hatch wouldn’t open on the ship and there was a fire. This time, they were assessing and planning the risk that the number 13 could have on the launch: Apollo 13 launching at 1300 hours and launching after 13 minutes. Also, a huge part of risk was the team’s lives in danger when things went down hill. All support teams were brought in and they were working their problems out instead of guessing. I guess it was a good thing that they learned from previous