Apollo 13

Apollo 13 is a movie where many questions were left unanswered. That could possibly be that the director wanted us to know what the astronauts knew to to make it more realistic. This movie uses astronomy and problem solving to solve many of these unanswered questions. In this essay I will be discussing the following issues; How the astronauts found out about the explosion, some of the problems that came with the explosion, whether it is worth the risk to send humans into space, and what knowledge

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

Proposed by John F. Kennedy to Congress on May 25, 1961, the Apollo Program, or “Project Apollo,” was the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s third exploratory program and the first project worldwide to attempt the tremendous endeavor putting a man on the moon. After sufficient studying over a five year period, the first flight, unmanned, was launched in 1966. Two years later, the first flight with a crew took place (Apollo 7, October 1968). Overall, the project sent up 19 spacecrafts

Apollo 13 the “Successful Failure” How did the failure of Apollo 13 actually help NASA in some ways? Well by the end of this paper it will show how and why the failure led to later success for NASA(National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Apollo 13 was an interesting exploration for many reasons, and today this paper will be showing how and why it was. First, the paper will teach about all of astronauts in space, and the people back on Earth communicating with the crew, and all of the different

Question 1: Apollo 13 was a successful failure because they got the astronauts home safely, but never completed their mission. Ken Mattingly was one of the astronauts that was suppose to go on the Apollo 13 mission, but two days before they were suppose to launch Ken’s blood work came back and they thought once he got into space, he would get the measles. The group's commander Jim Lovell had the decision to cut Ken from Apollo 13 mission and have Jack Swigert instead or wait until the next

Planning for the Apollo Space Program began in 1957 and the program ended in 1972. The Apollo Space Missions increased our understanding of the moon. The goal of the missions was to land men on the moon and return them safely to earth. This goal was achieved with Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969 man walked on the moon for the first time. This was a huge step in space exploration and much preparation had gone into it. Apollo 8 orbited the moon, but did not test a lunar lander, and Apollo 9 tested a lunar

In November 2011, retired astronaut James Lovell sold a valuable item through an auction house. It was a checklist from the Apollo 13 moon mission in 1970. It was sold by Heritage Auctions for more than $388,000. It brought in so much money because it has Lovell's handwritten notes on it. Now, though, NASA is claiming that Lovell had no right to sell the checklist. The agency claims that the checklist did not belong to Lovell; it belonged to NASA. NASA is also making this claim for three other items

This film is about three astronauts, they are Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise. In April 1970, on the glory days of the Apollo Space Program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lowell and two other astronauts to the fifth mission to the moon on the America. Only fifty five hours into the Apollo 13 aircraft, the disaster occurred on a mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Commander Jim Lovell and his crew watched the alarm when the cockpit was getting

     Ron Howard’s re-creation of the happenings aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 flight combined some of the biggest talent in Hollywood to produce a masterful film. Apollo 13 takes us back in time, to the late 1960’s and early 70’s, when America’s NASA space program was thriving and the world stood aside to see who would reach the moon first. The impacts of space program are still evident to this day. It is even said that by beating the Russians to the moon, we established ourselves

Personal Notes Literary Aspects Pre-Launch: “the launch tower is long gone…”(Pg.25). This descriptive section reminded me of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster as this was about the time when the Challenger broke apart in mid air. This lets me relate to the feeling the astronauts may be feeling at the time, anticipation with a mix of fear. “Spaceflight participants...pay between $20 and $40 million…” This reminded me of an article I read about the invention of a space elevator which is said