The Apollo Space Program was very important to many Americans and NASA because it dealt with sending astronauts into space and exploring the unknown solar system. That is why on April 11th, 1970, NASA launched three astronauts into space. This launch is known as Apollo 13, or the 13th launch out of Earth’s solar system. NASA sent three men, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert, into space on the Apollo 13 mission. Initially, Lovell, the commander, and Haise, the lunar module pilot, were supposed to walk on the moon while Swigert, the command module pilot, stayed in the spacecraft in orbit, but an event on April 13th changed that plan. The thing that makes the Apollo 13 mission so famous and different from the other missions is how
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Unlike where the other two Apollo missions that landed on maria plains, the Fra Mauro highland was brighter and NASA wanted to explore that unknown area on the moon. Surprisingly, the first couple of days into space for the astronauts were easy and “Apollo 13 was looking like the smoothest flight of the program”. However, when Swigert went to “stir the tanks” about 56 hours into the mission, Lovell said, “Houston, we have a problem. We’ve had a main B bus undervolt.” It turns out, during the testing before the mission was launched, Oxygen tank 2 in Sector 4 of the main fuel tanks was damaged, but that problem wasn’t aware to the people who built the spacecraft. Because of this, Sector 4 detached from the spacecraft into space and left the three astronauts with little air and …show more content…
That is why NASA created a new path, which was to loop around the moon and get a boost from the moon’s gravity. To save power so the lunar module would have enough to make it home, the command module was shut off until it reached the moon. Once the lunar module was close to the moon, the astronauts had to fire the lunar module’s engine many times to get enough power. Soon after this, the lunar module came into Earth’s atmosphere, after being in orbit for almost 143 hours, and landed in the Pacific Ocean, near the island of Samoa, close to Australia. Consequently, because NASA didn’t completely look at the oxygen tank before sending it into space, three astronauts came close to death. Fortunately, NASA didn’t waste any time creating a rescue plan that saved the astronauts and Apollo program. This event was a lesson for NASA to always be ready for anything that may come, no matter how unlikely it seems. NASA and the astronauts made the best of the supplies they had and didn’t panic under terrifying situations. All in all, Apollo 13 was an event that used science and thinking outside the box to save three lkimnhyb xswzl ives and the Apollo
Unlike where the other two Apollo missions that landed on maria plains, the Fra Mauro highland was brighter and NASA wanted to explore that unknown area on the moon. Surprisingly, the first couple of days into space for the astronauts were easy and “Apollo 13 was looking like the smoothest flight of the program”. However, when Swigert went to “stir the tanks” about 56 hours into the mission, Lovell said, “Houston, we have a problem. We’ve had a main B bus undervolt.” It turns out, during the testing before the mission was launched, Oxygen tank 2 in Sector 4 of the main fuel tanks was damaged, but that problem wasn’t aware to the people who built the spacecraft. Because of this, Sector 4 detached from the spacecraft into space and left the three astronauts with little air and …show more content…
That is why NASA created a new path, which was to loop around the moon and get a boost from the moon’s gravity. To save power so the lunar module would have enough to make it home, the command module was shut off until it reached the moon. Once the lunar module was close to the moon, the astronauts had to fire the lunar module’s engine many times to get enough power. Soon after this, the lunar module came into Earth’s atmosphere, after being in orbit for almost 143 hours, and landed in the Pacific Ocean, near the island of Samoa, close to Australia. Consequently, because NASA didn’t completely look at the oxygen tank before sending it into space, three astronauts came close to death. Fortunately, NASA didn’t waste any time creating a rescue plan that saved the astronauts and Apollo program. This event was a lesson for NASA to always be ready for anything that may come, no matter how unlikely it seems. NASA and the astronauts made the best of the supplies they had and didn’t panic under terrifying situations. All in all, Apollo 13 was an event that used science and thinking outside the box to save three lkimnhyb xswzl ives and the Apollo