Carbon-13 NMR

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…

Lost moon : the perilous voyage of Apollo 13 was written by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. It was published by Houghton Mifflin, in 1994 and tells the story of the Apollo 13 mission that almost resulted in a catastrophe. In April of 1970, Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts were sent by NASA on America 's fifth mission to the moon. Fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13 due to an electrical fault, one of the oxygen tanks exploded, causing its oxygen and power to begin to…

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…

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…

in-flight problems. This experience would come in handy on Apollo 13. Apollo 13 was the seventh mission in the American Apollo program and the third targeted to land on the moon. It would be Lovell’s fourth and final NASA operation, but his first time on the surface of the moon. The Apollo 13 mission was launched on April 10, 1970 and was programmed for ten days. It was commanded by Jim Lovell with John L. Swigert Jr. as the…

Have you ever been going 25,000 mph, fourteen times the speed of a bullet? Apollo 13 was just any old Apollo mission a least to the American people. Apollo 13 was a little mission that was to go to the moon and collect rocks that were fourteen billion years old. The oxygen tank exploded two days into their mission. It exploded because of faulty wiring that is why their mission was a fail. One reason that their mission was a fail was they couldn’t even compete their job. Their job was to…

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…

Werewolves girls and I Survived Outer space One day my friends and I were watching a movie. While we were watching the movie a space program interrupted our movie “Werewolves in space.” The space program caught LaMya eye because she is really into space things. Space james started talking about how living in space is a lot of work. LaMya said to Tamarea, when you are in space you must exercise and start your outer space eating habits 2 weeks before going into outer space. James said, hey guy…

Archibald’s maiden voyage in charge of Inchgreen went as follows. Ac-cording to the ship’s log, she departed Glasgow on the 27th of October, reached Cape Verde on the 2nd of November, and subsequently lost her upper main topsail yard in strong that prevented replacement efforts for the following week. She crossed the equator on 29th of November, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the 25th of December, and eventual-ly rounded the Cape of Tasmania on the 25th of January 1877 during a “very heavy…

Kym Borgman was born on August 21, 1959, in Hawthorne, CA. Kym has a normal childhood, with an older brother who picked on him. Even though his brother often picked on Kym, when the two weren’t fighting they were conspiring and getting into trouble. Martin would not be Kym’s only accomplice, his life long friend Charles (aka Chuck) Dixon would join Kym in many of his adolent escapades. The two would even raise their families together when that time came. Who knew searching my grandfather's name…