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Despite Apollo 13 being considered a failed mission due to the fact that they did not land on the moon, it may have actually helped NASA out and proved to themselves that they can handle things in high pressure situations. The mission was able to get some exploration done by taking pictures of the moon, but the only encounters that took place were problems such as an oxygen tank explosion. What make this mission historically significant is that it boosted US morale because they were able to…

An Impossible Mission Only the third intended mission to the moon and it wouldn’t quite make it. On April 13, 1970 two days after flight Apollo 13 lifted off something went wrong. The three men, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise trained as any other astronaut would, but what happened was unpredictable. The three men had just finished a broadcast to the citizens back home without many people joined watching. It was 56 hours into the mission where a cryo-stir had occurred this caused…

Expository Essay for Life as We Knew It One event changed their life forever. The novel Life as We Knew It by author Susan Beth Pfeffer is a realistic-fiction novel about survival. In the novel, the protagonist Miranda and her family want to survive the disasters caused by the protagonist, the asteroid that hit the moon. The lack of water, food, and electricity was keeping them from being successful. The severe climate changes, such as droughts and major temperature changes, along with…

Lovell, J. L. (1994). Lost Moon: The Perlious Voyage of Apollo 13. New York: Houghton Mifflin. Jim Lovell was the Commander of Apollo 13. He participated in three previous space missions for NASA, to include Apollo 8 and the Apollo 1 fire investigation board. With Jeffery Kruger, he provides a first hand account of the events and a detailed look into experiences of the crew. Lovell, a Navy test Pilot, was selected to the NASA Astronaught Group Two in 1962. At the time of launch, Jim Lovell…

Apollo 13 is an exciting movie and a true story. I read the book before watch movie. The story was so much challenging for the three astronauts and they survived their life from death. Astronaut Neil Armstrong is fist man on the moon and his foot down to moon at July 20, 1969. Buzz Aldrin was second astronauts who go with Neil. They flew with Apollo 11. When they landed on moon, people watched Neil and Buzz on the television. People are excited about men who was on the moon and five year old…

『Prologue: Beginning of the End』 In the year of December 2045, A new planet discovered by NASA and JAXA; the planet was so dark, even a single light can't espy and reflected so they decided to enter the unknown planet to discover any life on it. Five days later, Team ϴ-Wings from NASA and Team Σ-Tsubasa form JAXA didn't return from the unknown planet, some said that there were some dimensional breakdown phenomenon during time to time, causing them to travel into a parallel universe, others said…

so then Apollo 13 blasted off into space from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The 3 astronauts called Lovell, Haise, and Swigert was strapped inside their compact spacecraft, which was perched atop of a 360-foot-tall rocket packed with millions of pounds of fuel to fly into space. The mission was to land on the moon and explore a hill section called Fra Mauro. Also, gather samples of the moon’s sandy dirt and 4-billion-year-old rocks. After 2 days since the launch of the Apollo 13, the 3…

“Thirteen Days” is a movie portraying the story of President Kennedy’s (and everyone who works for and with him) struggle, of the long, agonizing 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. Overall, I thought it was a really good movie. It showed the struggle and all of the worries that everyone had to overcome during this chaotic time. The main issue of this movie was that the Soviet Union had missiles down in Cuba and the United States was worried they could attack. The movie…

Erhabor Professor Fletcher English 1101 19 November 2014 Apollo 13 Successful and Failure Apollo 13 is one of the most memorable missions in NASA. Apollo 13 how about crew members on the mission. The crew was ready to launch until they had a problem with the ship. They had to hold back the mission for a couple of seconds. The Apollo 13 mission had technical problems with the spaceship. This missions took place in April, 11 1970 (apollo 13).The crew was excited to launch. The crew member worked…

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…