Apollo 13

minutes later, fuel cells one and three failed. Over the next 130 minutes, the second oxygen tank, damaged by the blast, spewed its precious cargo out into the void. With all oxygen depleted, the last fuel cell flickered out. The crew of spaceflight Apollo 13 was left stranded with no power, no oxygen, and no way to return--205,000 miles from home. Immediately, Houston sprang into a frenzy of action. It was clear that entirely new solutions needed to be rapidly found, tested, and executed if the…

What was the Apollo 13? Apollo 13 was a successful failure because it was a mission to the moon with many challenges along the way as well as surviving the free fall to safely back to Earth. To begin with, the launch to the moon was just like any other take off. It stretched back the skin on their faces until it seemed their bones might shatter. The mission was to get samples of sandy dirt and grab 4 billion year old rocks from Earth. Suddenly a loud bang got their attention. The spacecraft…

because they usually know what they are doing, and if they do not, they act like it so the group does not lose hope in the leader and project they are working on. In fact, a few weeks back my class observed a movie, Apollo 13. The film is based on the true story based on the Apollo 13 mission. Leadership plays a big role in this inspiring film, the three astronauts are trying to be the second…

Apollo 13 Maria Awad Mr. Estes American History II, D-block 16 March 2016 On April 11, 1970, the spacecraft, Apollo 13 was launched to go to the moon. Its journey lasted about five days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 41 seconds and traveled 622,268 miles. It landed April 17, 1970 in the Pacific Ocean (Chaikin, Kohl, and Bean 56). The spacecraft’s crew consisted of: James A. Lovell Jr. as the Commander, Fred W. Haise Jr. as the Lunar Module Pilot, and John L. Swigert Jr. as the Command Module…

“‘Hey, we’ve got a problem here.’ The day was April 13, 1970. The voice was that of astronaut Jack Swigert, speaking from aboard the spacecraft Odyssey. Almost immediately, NASA’s Mission Control queried back: ‘This is Houston. Say again, please’” (Useem 114). The men wanted to get the point across that there was a major life or death problem going on. They spread the awareness in both the story and film of Apollo 13. Various stories with a movie or film made along with it most likely have some…

Apollo 13 was a research mission to the moon. Halfway through the mission, the space ship blew up. America thought the astronauts were doomed, but the people at mission control thought otherwise. They brought astronauts back home alive. They never did make it to the moon. Apollo 13 mission was a success for many reasons. The first reason is that they came back alive. After having half of there oxygen supply blown out into space and there being depleted fast, they pulled through. The reason for…

“Houston, we have a problem.” said Jim Lovell, an astronaut of Apollo 13, when the oxygen tank explored in the Space in 1970. After the talk, this lunar exploration gained a worldwide concern. Three astronauts in the craft fought with numerous disastrous faults and eventually back to the earth. In 1995, this regrettable story was even recorded as a historical docudrama named Apollo 13. Such social repercussion brought up a perspective that Apollo 13, one of the most well-known explorations of…

In the film Apollo 13, while in orbit awaiting to do a lunar landing, they were doing some diagnostics and a oxygen tank exploded and Flight Commander Gene Kranz had to make some major decisions to ensure the crew would be able to return to Earth safely. As any effective manager would, Kranz using knowledge and information from his team of experts to assess the severity of the situation, demonstrating the first step of decision making. With the information he has, he acknowledges that a major…

unlikely host of numerous Apollo astronauts over the last number of years, thanks to local magistrate Ken Willoughby and his fantastic Space Lectures team. I may be in my early twenties but I’m certainly no stranger to meeting astronauts. Since my first encounter with Apollo 15 commander Dave Scott at an autograph event in Birmingham in September 2009, I have been lucky enough to shake the hands of many of these men I consider heroes. Of the 29 American astronauts that flew on Apollos 7 through…

In the aspect of identifying decision criteria, the members of the Apollo 13 mission had to do the same. Towards the end of the movie, (Grazer, 1995) there was a decision to be made about who would fly the spacecraft back into the atmosphere. Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, jumped into the pilots seat. He had more experience in space and was the leader of the mission. Jack Swigert, the command module pilot, was the other option. Swigert was supposed to be the pilot of the spacecraft, as…