Apollo 13 Thesis

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly in space or work on the crew at NASA that helps the astronauts get home safely? These two jobs both use many of the laws of physics. In fact, almost everything they do involves physics. Apollo 13 is a movie that epitomizes what those jobs are like and how much physics is required. The three main laws of physics in the movie were Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, Newton’s First Law, and Newton’s Third Law.

Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crewmembers aboard the ship were James A. Lovell Jr., John L. Swigert Jr., and Fred W. Haise, Jr. Before the launch, there had been a few problems. Thomas K. Mattingly was supposed to fly on the Apollo 13 but he was exposed to the measles. He didn’t have the antibodies to fight the disease, causing him to not be able to go into space. Swigert took his place. Right before the launch, one of the technicians saw that the helium tank had a higher pressure than expected. Nothing was done to fix this. During liftoff, the second-stage engine shut down, causing the other engines to run longer than planned. Apollo 13 was off to a rocky start.

Apollo 11 changed the way Americans saw the world, and the way the world saw Americans. The world had been competing, the biggest battle being between Russia and the United States. The whole world was aware of the space race. The landing on the moon was not just important to America. It was important to all of mankind. Neil Armstrong and the other crew members were shot into fame overnight, with Neil Armstrong being the first man on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission will never be forgotten by the American people.

The first critical event of the film gives the Apollo 13 astronauts their mission. Alan

Shortly after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed and walked successfully on the Moon for the first time in history, another lunar mission almost ended in disaster without the valor and strong leadership it took to get three men back to Earth. Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks), Jack Swiggert (played by Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (played by Bill Paxton) blasted off on the Apollo 13 mission on April 11, 1970, in trying to collect samples from the surface of the Moon and survey it. Swiggert took the place of the more experienced Ken Mattingly (played by Gary Sinese) since Mattingly was the only one not immune to the measles after one of the other astronauts had contracted it. The flight surgeon

In the movie Apollo 13, Ron Howard experienced many challenges trying to recreate authenticity in the Apollo 13 space mission’s story, while still adding his own creative spin to the movie. In April 1970, National Aeronautic Space Agency (NASA) launched a spacecraft with three astronauts on board this flight. During this mission, Apollo 13 experienced multiple issues, which caused the mission to end earlier than expected. After 20 years had passed, Jim Lovell, one of the Apollo 13, and Jeffrey Kluger wrote Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which chronicled this event in NASA’s lunar space history. Soon after its release, this book caught the eye of famous actor and soon to be famous director Ron Howard, which caused him to adapt

When the settlers arrived in the New World, their immediate thought was never to protect or conserve resources. Instead, over time as more Europeans made the trip west, natural resources depleted until Pinchot (#1, T) began the conservation movement. He would become the first leader of the future U.S Forest Service and go on to help protect and conserve areas of untouched forest across the country (Pinchot, 73). Consequently, Pinchot began a spark that would lead to Muir’s late impact and our current era that desires to form a sustainable system for human civilization. Since the start of conservation, Americans have slowly strived for sustainability and environmentally friendly practices.

When Jim is talking to his younger son about the Apollo 13 mission, he is explaining the mission using words that his son would understand. At first everything seemed exiting and or interesting but the conversation got more serious after his son asks: “Dad did you know the astronauts’ on the fire?”, he was asking about Grissom, White, and Chaffee who had passed away caught in a capsule/launch pad fire during a routine test, Apollo 1 fire. Jim told his son that he knew all of the astronauts that were in that fire to which his son then asked if that could happen again. Jim tells his son that a lot of things went wrong with that fire that the astronauts could not get the door open when they needed to get out. When his son asks him if the problem

Apollo 13 mission was planned as a precision lunar landing in the Fra Maura highlands with the primary objective of exploring the moon, but an explosion in one of the oxygen tanks resulted in the mission being aborted even before moon landing could take place. Though the mission failed its primary objective, it’s still remembered as the “Successful Failure”. The crew members fought for their life’s and with the help of ground and mission control team the crew returned alive on Earth. What Happened

The Apollo 11 mission was a huge accomplishment, not only for the United States, but for the entire future of space exploration. The mission impacted the world as we know it, and opened up a whole new realm for us to explore. Apollo 11 was a massive undertaking many thought would never succeed, but now it could be considered the most memorable space experience of all time. Because of its magnitude, many writers wrote about the mission. The writers of that time wrote about the chance for disaster, the jaw dropping launch, the first steps on the moon, and the controversy that surrounded the first mission to the moon.

Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission, and the third mission intended on going to the moon. Apollo 13 was launched on April 11, 1970 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Dunbar, Brian) Previous to the launch, ground tests indicated poorly insulated helium tanks. After two days in flight, the crew began to worry. “Okay, Houston. We’ve had a problem here.” (Space Quotes) The Apollo 13 movie changed Swigert’s famous “Houston, we’ve had a problem here” to “Houston we have a problem here” coming from James Lovell instead of John Swigert. 200,000 miles from Earth, on April 13, a low pressure warning on the hydrogen tank appeared. Knowing there was danger to be, the crew did the “cryo stir” procedure. The procedure was to stop the gas from settling into layers. Slowly running out of power and water big concerns began to worry the crew. With no source of heat, cabin temperatures became freezing for the crew. Also with the freezing temperatures, some food became inedible for the crew. The astronauts left the command module section of the spacecraft and used the lunar module as a lifeboat. With the descending spacecraft, Apollo 13 was unable to land on the moon, it was forced to circle it due to an explosion on board. Even though it did not get to land, Apollo 13 reached 248, 655 miles from Earth, marking the farthest humans have traveled from Earth at that time. (BBC News) The Fra Mauro Area was the original landing

Apollo 11 a was when Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. It was a race between America and the soviet union. America won the race by being the first one to ever take a step on the moon. It's one of the most important because Neil Armstrong took foot on a different planet that no other country has ever done before. After he stepped

The Apollo 11 mission of 1969 marks the biggest leap in technological advancements for humanity. Neil Armstrong is seen taking the first steps on the moon forever making his mark in humanity. However, theories surrounding the moon landing have come to light. Conspiracy theorists say NASA, the National Aeronautics Space Administration, have faked the Apollo 11 moon landing. Yet, present evidence can support the authenticity of the moon landing. Evidence such as photos, rock samples, technology, and computer monitoring support the moon landing. The moon landing of 1969 did happen.

As you grow older, you also become wiser, and the way you used to look at things also changes, and even though you regret your former actions, you will have to live with how it turned out, instead of being stuck in the past and how it could had been.

The Apollo 13 mission was a significant historical event, because of the dangerous repercussions that followed the explosion of the oxygen tank on Apollo 13. The story in which the astronauts Lovell, Swigert, and Haise surviving these errors during the flight is truly incredible. In the movie Apollo 13, the creators depicted most of the events involving the crew’s adventure to and from space quite accurately. Although creating most events successfully the creators of Apollo 13 failed in many regards when it came to the creation of the plans the crew used to survive, and the small details that were missed, involving the crew in the process of flying the space shuttle and surviving the accident.