Apollo 13: Third Attempt To Land On The Moon

A few days later Lovell and his crew take off on the Apollo 13 mission. At first all is well until the second oxygen tank explodes, causing many problems for the crew; the most potent problem being that the crew was losing oxygen fast. Luckily, due to much ingenuity by the crew and mission control, the crew is able to arrive safely to earth without the deaths of any astronauts.

The moon landing was an incredible feat of man. The first mission to the moon was on July 16, 1969. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins were the first three astronauts to go onto the moon. Some people think that the moon landing was faked. However, there is no possible way that the moon landing could have been faked.

The Apollo Program (1963-1972) was a series of missions with a goal to land humans on the moon. The program’s objective, set by President Kennedy in 1961, was achieved nine short years later (The Apollo Missions). Of the program, six were successful in doing so, Apollo 11 being the first to achieve that goal (Williams). The crew contained Neil Armstrong, Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin Jr. , and Michael Collins.

Thirteen: The Apollo 13 Flight That Failed, by Henry Cooper. On the evening of April 13, 1970 the three astronauts were just hours from the third lunar landing in history, but as they soared through space two hundred thousand miles from earth an explosion, badly damaged their space craft with compromised engines an failing life support systems the crew was incomparably grave danger faced with below freezing

Apollo 13 was the seventh attempted mission to go to the moon for the third time in April 11th 1970. The men who were assigned to that mission were Jim Lovell Fred Haise and Ken Mattingly. However Ken Mattingly got diagnosed with the measles, so they had to replace Ken with Jack Swigert who was the backup command module pilot for the Odyssey.

Where Apollo 13 took place and launched, was at the complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. It happened at 2:13 p.m. EST, April 11, 1970. What had caused it to orbit the moon and come back, was a ciple in the oxygen tank. One thing that happened was on the Apollo 13 spacecraft, a oxygen tank was crippled and they had to orbit the moon and return home. The main event was that for the third time, they successfully lifted off once more, just to run into a problem with the oxygen tank. The people involved (meaning on the Apollo 13) were: Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell. It kind of ties in with Apollo 11 because they both went to the moon but, Apollo 11 was made up to beat the Soviet Union in the Space Race by John F. Kennedy. Apollo 13 ties in with the three theme words, Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in these three different ways: Exploration, they explored outer space and learned many new things about plants, if anything grows on the planets, if anything lived there they didn 't know about, etc. Encounter, they encounter many new materials (plastic is one of those things). They had encounter a cripple and the oxygen tank that happened on the Apollo 13. Exchange, they exchanged ideas about what to do about the cripple of the one of the oxygen tank. They were trying to exchange communication on how they were doing in space. A fun fact about Apollo 13 is that it is the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo Space Program. Shortly after the incident with the

Apollo 13 was called the successful failure because of the effort to bring the crew back home. It involved three trained to be astronauts to set foot on the moon. The three astronauts are Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly and Fred Haise but, Charles Dickson exposed the crew to German Measles and Ken Mattingly was not immune to measles and had to be replaced by Jack Swigart who was part of the backup team. Soon after they were practicing to fly the ship and was not very good. 2 days later it was the day of the launch .

Trial and error was the focus for forging a successful mission’s launch vehicle and spacecraft. Sadly, after setback of a launch fire that killed three training astronauts, Apollo 7, yielded the first success in systems and structure on October 1968. 9:32 A.M. at Kennedy Space Center. Subsequently, Armstrong, Buzz, and Michael Collins launched Apollo 11 and entered lunar orbit on July 19th, 1969. In fact, upon landing Apollo 11 on the surface of the moon, Armstrong radioed Mission Control and relayed another famous phrase, “The Eagle has landed.” These four words signified a successful moon landing. At the height of a growing conspiracy, a television camera that was attached to the spacecraft captured Armstrong’s progress down the module’s ladder. Buzz joined Armstrong a few minutes later where they spent the night on the surface of the moon, constructing the American flag, as well as, a plaque that read, “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon–July 1969 A.D–We came in peace for all mankind.”

The film Apollo 13 is a movie based on the events of Apollo 13. It starts out with Jim Lovell hosting a party for everyone in the neighbourhood to watch the Apollo 11 team land on the moon. At the party he tells his wife that he wants to walk on the moon himself. He was put on the Apollo 14 mission. As he is giving a tour of NASA he is told that the team for the Apollo 13 mission had fallen ill and him and his crew will be filling in. Later it is revealed that his crewmate (Ken Mattingly) got the measles and was taken off the mission and replaced by Jack Swigert. That team is in the rocket as it began to launch on April 11, 1970. It makes it up out of Earth's orbit and on trajectory to the moon with only one problem (a second stage engine cut

Everything was going smoothly until about two days into the flight. “Houston, we have a problem said Jim Lovell” At first their intention was to land on the moon, but that was all about to change. When the Apollo 13 ship’s oxygen tank ruptured the crew had to find a way to survive.

Early in 1959, Luna I made a trip past the moon, and on September 14,1959, Luna II crashed on the moon. Luna II was truly the first actual visit by spacecraft to another object in space (McArthur, 29-30). The United States started the Apollo mission with the goals of reaching the moon and sending people to land on the moon safely. The Apollo missions go off to a rough start when on January 27, 1967, Apollo I caught on fire during the preflight test. Apollo II-VI where unmanned moon orbiter space crafts. Apollo VII was launched on October 11, 1968, and had three peope on board.It was in spaced for a little bit less than 11 days and in that time it orbted the moon colecting data. Apollo VIII was launched on December 21, 1968 and was in space over christmas and on christma eve they made a telecast were the astronauts red verses from the bible. On Apollo VII they also made five other telecasts. Apollo IX was launched on March 3, 1969, and collected more data on the moon and experimented with photography. Apollo X was launched May 18, 1969 and while in orbit tracked the moon's main landmarks. On July 16,1969, Apollo 11 blasted into space with Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins (Loff). When it came time to attempt to and on the moon mission control tried to guide Apollo 11 somewhere Armstrong fet was too risky so he took over and went to land somewhere

It was also called successful failure. Most are retaking the story with technical NASA engineer and technical to bring safety. The article recapping the disaster. The Apollo 13 was lunch on Sat April 11, 1970(). The start time was 1:13 for takeoff (Shira).

Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo Space Program and the third intended to land on the moon.

Also from the article “Disaster in space” it says “Apollo 13 was supposed to be a research mission to the moon”. Another reason why it was a failure is there was a catastrophe which drained there oxygen really fast. they had to go around the moon so they can land on earth. From the article Their “Successful Failure” it says “Our mission was a failure he said I mean there was

Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space adventure film directed by Ron Howard. The film depicts astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America 's third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA 's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.