Apollo 13 Survival

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Survival. Our most basic mission in life is survival. Everyone has to undertake a mission in life even if we don’t understand what will drive us. The crew from Apollo 13 and Ernesto Galarza both had to undertake a mission which required bravery, teamwork, and being able to trust others. Ernesto had to learn the English language to survive in America, while the Apollo 13 crew had to survive in a broken spaceship and get back to Earth.

Ernesto from “Barrio Boy: By Ernesto Galarza” had to go through a lot to undertake his mission. Ernesto’s mission took bravery, because you have to be brave to go to a new school where you absolutely know no one and not even speak the same language. Ernesto’s mission also took teamwork because he had to work with his teacher, Mrs.
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Apollo 13’s mission took bravery just like Ernesto because they had to be brave to go up into space and leave behind their own families and everything they have. Apollo 13’s mission also took teamwork just like Ernesto because the crew all had to work together to figure out the safest way to get back to Earth without dying. Another trait ‘’Apollo 13’s’’ mission took was to trust. The crew had to trust what each other had to say about how to fix everything that was going wrong so that they were able to make it back to Earth safely. The mission for the crew in ‘’Apollo 13’’ was to go to the moon and make it back down to Earth safely. In paragraph 16 it says, “The trip was marked by discomfort beyond lack of food and water since sleep was almost impossible, because of the cold and there was no heat, because the electrical systems were turned off and the temperature dropped to 38 degrees.’’ Even though it was a long flight and took a lot of work, the ‘’Apollo 13’’ crew was still able to accomplish their mission and make it back

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