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    Apollo 13 was a space mission that some may have viewed as a failure; it was, in fact, the complete opposite. Space entry has improved immensely, with the efforts and struggles gained from previous missions. In addition, one of the astronauts of this mission, Jim Lovell, “believed it was a success. The astronauts and the Space Control Center were tested on their ability to work together and that is how Apollo 13 succeeded” (Anastasio 90). Apollo 13 has bettered the space program by allowing…

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    The 2014 Oscar winning film Interstellar- directed by Christopher Nolan- shadows the protagonist Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) an ex-NASA pilot and engineer. The storyline begins in an apocalyptic America were the environment can no longer sustain human life. Out of chance Cooper and his daughter Murphy (Jessica Chastain) find the remains of NASA and discover just how little time humanity has. To save his children Cooper agrees to join the crew of the Endurance, tasked to locate a…

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    The Motel Short Story

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    It was a stormy day and the blank family decides to go on a vacation because they are sick of the nasty weather. The Blank parents decide on a destination to go on so they call down there kids liam and michael they are twins but do not get along at all. There parent finally announce they are going on vacation to pluto to see the moon rise. the next day they head to nasa to take off to pluto. The Blank family loads up the rocket with there stuff and they headed for pluto. Liam starts to pick on…

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    The Apollo 13 Mission

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    To go far and beyond as past Apollo missions were the plans for the Apollo 13 mission, but with a sudden change of plans they only had one mission left, get back home safe and alive. They launched on April 11, 1970, orbiting around the moon and back to earth for five days, twenty-two hours, fifty-four minutes, and forty-one seconds, and landed back to Earth in the Pacific Ocean on April 17 1970. On the mission, the crew composed of James A. Lovell Jr. as commander, Charles M. Duke Jr. as Lunar…

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    Apollo 13 Analysis

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    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…

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    Apollo 13 1. ANGLE ON -- Marilyn. Medium eye level shot. Inside NASA building. A TV is playing, Marilyn lovell turns the volume up on the controller. She chews her lips with her hands folded tightly. Her eyes are fixed on the television. She looks calm with a straight face. 1. ANGLE -- Marilyn. Eye-line match/POV shot of the television Jim comes on the television screen. Camera watches for a few seconds. Jim stands tall and looks confident and calm. [Diegetic sound of Jim talking in the…

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    The Martian- Summary In the novel, The Martian, written by Andy Weir, is based upon an astronaut and botanist called Mark Watney. The novel is about Mark doing everything he could to survive using his remarkable knowledge, meanwhile having to bear the worst-case scenarios going through his head, hard labor, problems after problems and the most painful, loneliness. This novel not only contains scientific facts and humor, but also being genuine or realistic, which brought many lessons to learn…

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    Apollo 13 Analysis

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    When Apollo 13’s crew set out for the moon’s Fra Mauro highlands on April 11, 1970, they had no idea they would soon be fighting for their lives. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise ran into trouble after just over two days in space when an explosion damaged their spacecraft (“Apollo 13”). What started out as an expedition to collect lunar rocks, then turned into a race against the clock. The unexpected explosion triggered an urgent response from mission control, back on Earth.…

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    The movie 13 Days is about the Cuban Missile Crisis that occurred during October 1962. The movie shows how John F. Kennedy and his advisers tried to negotiate with the Soviet Union to take their missiles out of Cuba. The United States first saw what looked like missiles with a U-2 spy drone on October, 16. Kennedy’s advisers had many different ideas for him to take the treat out. The Joint Chief of Staff wanted Kennedy to invade Cuba and destroy it with air strikes. Kennedy did not want to…

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    Columns (or posts) are large, cylindrical pillars of stone mainly created to support beams or arches. Ancient Egyptian architecture made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common. Columns in the ancient Mesopotamian region were in turn inspired by their palm trees, as it was a very fertile land. The columns were created for structural support. Columns are frequently used to support…

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