Apollo 13 Research Paper

On April 11, 1970, so then Apollo 13 blasted off into space from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The 3 astronauts called Lovell, Haise, and Swigert was strapped inside their compact spacecraft, which was perched atop of a 360-foot-tall rocket packed with millions of pounds of fuel to fly into space. The mission was to land on the moon and explore a hill section called Fra Mauro. Also, gather samples of the moon’s sandy dirt and 4-billion-year-old rocks. After 2 days since the launch of the Apollo 13, the 3 astronauts were in the open space with nobody except each other and calls from mission control to know if they are doing well. With one day to go before they were going to be on the moon, there was nothing going to go wrong. Soon after when The astronauts had just finished an inspection of the LEM, they got a call from Mission Control saying that they had to perform a routine task: Turn on the fans inside the oxygen tanks. With a flip of a switch, Swigert completed the job. Seconds later, there was a loud bang. The spacecraft moaned and shuddered.“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” Lovell said. But the problem was actually a life or death …show more content…
So the 3 astronauts had to use their brains and wits to survive to get back. So they thought that the LEM could be used to their new bedroom for the rest of the trip but it doesn’t have enough power, water, and air to support the 3 astronauts. But every minute that past they had more problems arising like Tarshis says on page 9. For example, the air filter being busted and it doesn’t work so they made a replacement for the original air filter out of anything that was on the ship. Or correcting the aircraft’s position to land on the Earth by firing the engine with short bursts. Plus, turning off all the systems except the most necessary ones to survive. But overall they were calm and focused on the problem at hand as Tarshis writes on page