July 13

Apollo 13 and Leadership On April 10th James "Jim" Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise embarked on one of the most historic missions in NASA history. Three days later on April 13th, while performing a routine stir on the O2 tanks, the Apollo 13 mission suffered a terrible electrical malfunction and was forced to make an emergency return mission. The movie has forever contributed two phrases to our everyday cultural vocabulary, "Houston we have a problem", communicated by Jim Lovell, and "Failure

The Making of Apollo 13 When making Apollo 13, Ron Howard's intention was to make his film as exciting as possible. He wanted to make a chemistry on set that would show throughout the film. Ron wanted Apollo 13 to be realistic, as well as exciting and enjoyable. Within the characters, Ron wanted to capture their real personalities. This was done by the actors (Tom Hanks and Kathleen Quinlan) meeting the real-life Jim and Marilyn Lovell. They each spent a day in their

today’s workplace. As film is one of the more engaging mediums, this allows for abstract theories to be presented visually and in a dramatic manner. The film Apollo 13 was selected to showcase such models including the communication process model, types of decision making models, and the five-stage model of team development. Apollo 13 chronicles the events of the 1971 lunar mission involving three astronauts; Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. After a successful launch, a critical error occurs

He doesn’t put pressure on them to be mean, but he does it because he needs them to work fast and efficient. I personally would want to buy into his ideas and solutions, because he did help resolve a lot of the problems that went on with the Apollo 13 mission. The issue they needed to solve that was similar to our project was when they had to come up with a solution to fix the oxygen leakage. They had to use the materials they knew the men in

Mark Watney was a botanist who was on a mission to Mars with the rest of the Ares 3 crew. Six sols (or Martian days) into their mission, everything was running smoothly. That is until a dangerous sandstorm put all of their lives at risk. During the storm, Mark’s spacesuit is punctured, and his crewmates assumed that he had died because he was unresponsive and you would die in less than a minute after being exposed to the Martian atmosphere. They had no choice but to abort their mission and head back

As I have mentioned so many times in my previous posts, I'm so into watching and reading up on Apollo 13 mission which goes back to 1970. The mission was supposed to highlight the third moon landing, however, the novelty of moon landing among the general public seemed to have already worn off, none of TV networks in the United States broadcast the live transmission from the Apollo 13 crew members, only a handful of family members and NASA's flight controllers actually watched it. However, what

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

The movie, The Core, directed by Jon Ameil, is a disaster/thriller film focusing on a team that must go on a mission, where they drill down to the core of the Earth in attempt to restart the rotation and thus for save the world from catastrophe. Although entertaining, the movie has faced some harsh criticism for the laughably “bad science” meaning the science portrayed in the movie is oftentimes less than factual, and not consistent with actual science such as the core freezing, landing a space

The film, the Martian directed by Ridley Scott, explores the Kantian ethics of accidently leaving Mark Watney on the moon and the quest to get him back home. The film explores Kantian ethics through the lenses of three different groups of characters: Mark Watney, NASA, and the Ares III crew. Mark Watney was a botanist for NASA who showed the clearest example of Kantian ethics of all the characters in the film. Every one of his actions were made with the mindset of the ends justify the means, on

Apollo 13 was to be the third mission sent from the Apollo Project to land on the Moon. An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks caused the spacecraft to become crippled during the flight and the crew were forced to orbit the Moon and return to the Earth without landing. The Apollo 13 mission was launched on Saturday afternoon, April 11, 1970 from launch complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The space prime crew consisted of trained experts Commander James A. Lovell Jr., Command module pilot Ken Mattingly