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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…

performed a spacewalk. His second was Apollo 11 the first lunar landing in history. Also the first person to orbit the moon in a Command Module all alone with no communication. His courage and bravery helped us get where we are today. What he did was important because he changed history, the way we look into space, they way we think about things today. This changes things, by the way scientist look at things, they get a closer look, information…

It’s the early 1960s and the aerospace industry is slowly starting to begin to thrive, in sunny Florida. When Moonport was placed on Cape Canaveral it changed Florida greatly. For the residents of the Sunshine state it created jobs, and increased tourism, causing the economy to increase. This film communicated a lot of information, mainly how economy in Florida changed, the film also covered the specific audience that it was reaching towards, as well as what life in Florida was like. According…

Rockets just don't get to the moon by themselves. No, it takes men! Men to build them, men to fly them, men to plot their complicated trajectories! White men! Or so the thinking went back in 1961, back when America's Mercury space program was just getting off the ground. Yes, there were people other than men at NASA working too mission is to explore space and aeronautics, or flight research. There are quite a few women working in the space program. Some of those women work at Langley's West…

“We were given the situation,” Lovell explained, "to really exercise our skills, and our talents to take a situation which was almost certainly catastrophic, and come home safely. That's why I thought that 13, of all the flights -- including [Apollo] 11 -- that 13 exemplified a real test pilot's flight." This quote is…

Why We May Have Not Landed on The Moon and Why We May Have December 1968 was a glorious time for the world. Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to enter orbit of the moon. In the following years many other moon missions have occurred. Various groups and individuals have made claims since the mid-1970s, that NASA knowingly misled the public into believing lunar landings have occurred, by manufacturing, tampering with, or destroying evidence including photos, telemetry tapes, radio and TV…

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…

Shepard, became ill. Not wanting to break up a crew, NASA changed the flight assignments and moved Lovell and his crew to the Apollo 13 mission. In order to allow the crew time to train for the mission, the launch was moved from March 12 to April 11 and talk about the mission being cursed…

Teamwork drives us for success Is it possible to accomplish the impossible? Ernesto and the Apollo 13 crew both undertook missions to prove they could accomplish their goals using patience, hard work, and determination with struggles on being an American and surviving in space. Both Barrio Boy and Apollo 13 crew used the hope from their loved to ones to accomplish their missions. Barrio Boy and Apollo 13 both had one mission to accomplish. Ernesto Galarza’s was to become an American and learn…

Humans, throughout history they have been driven by curiosity and the need for exploration. Over time we have always been in a never-ending race, competing to be the best. Year after year, century after century, time after time, we become increasingly more advanced and innovated. On September 12th, 1962, president John F. Kennedy spoke in front of a large audience at Rice University in Houston, Texas. It is here where he would dramatically shape the direction of the United States’ efforts. His…