#1 The Apollo 13 was a spaceship sent on a mission to the moon. It is considered a successful failure because even though they did not get to the moon they did get home safely. They had a lot of difficulty on the spacecraft. They faced a lot of problems and troubles, but through teamwork and perseverance they made it home.
One of the first things that went wrong was they thought Ken mattingly could not go because he was exposed to the measles and they thought he would get sick. This caused him to be replaced by John L. swigert. Ken mattingly never did get sick , but it was good swap him out incase he did. No one knows if it would have changed what happened if he never got switched. We can just wonder.
Another problem that they had was when they went to stir the tanks routinely. When they did this the side of the ship burst making it difficult to get home safely. Later they lost power, because of this they had to go to the lunar module. As they were in it the lunar module it started to fill with co2 causing blackouts and not letting people breath. This
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Their levels of CO2 were extremely high . This problem could have brought blackouts, loss of oxygen and even death. If they were to pass out it would be very dangerous not only because they could die but if they couldn’t control the ship. They were most likely worried carbon dioxide poisoning. The CO2 levels were high because the filter was not working. To fix this problem the had to fit a square filter into a circle filter hole. Back home on earth they were scrambling to fix this problem before it was too late. Mission control made a contraption to make it fit. They were successful in this . They eventually got carbon dioxide to flow out and filter so they did not die. What they did was difficult and they had to be very brave. The story of Apollo 13 inspires people to want to help the world of astronomy and science
...ause it was the mission that NASA was able to put the first man up onto the moon. Neil Armstrong was the pilot of the Apollo 11 flight. There was a special shuttle that was attached to the spaceship; it was called the Eagle. The Eagle was designed to transport some crew members down to the moon. Armstrong was responsible for driving and landing the shuttle safely down to the moon. While on his way down to the moon, Armstrong realized that he was starting to run out of fuel. Thankfully, Armstrong did have enough to land on the moon and make it back up to the spaceship. When the Eagle was leaving the spaceship for the first time up in space, it wasn't completely depressurized so there was something like a gas bubble come from the shuttle as it was on its way to the moon. The gas bubble moved the shuttle off course and the Eagle actually landed four miles off course.
Next Chick Gandil went to his teammates one by one about the proposal. First he went to Eddie Cicotte, who at first rejected the idea but later agreed to it if he were paid $10,000 before the series started. (Asinof 1) Gandil then went after infielders such as “Swede” Risberg and Fred McMullin. (Linder 1) Gandil then went after another pitcher in “Lefty” Williams. (2) Chick Gandil then asked Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver, and Oscar Felsch to meet with the other five the next night, they then agreed. (2) Oscar Felsch and Buck Weaver agreed to the proposal and became apart of the fix but Joe Jackson would not have any part of it even after he was offered $10,000. (Facts 1)
The amazing performances by the crew and ground support was what kept the crew alive. The crew and ground Apollo 13 had a huge impact on space exploration. Many people disagree with this because if they had stopped or changed the schedule of Apollo 13 they may not have failed their mission. Even though they failed at their goals the overall result was success. Apollo 13 was an amazing achievement for NASA even though they did not achieve their goals of landing on the Fra Mauro area of the moon. They landed in the pacific ocean on April 17th 1970. The name of their recovery ship was the USS Iwo Jima. The Fra Mauro site was reassigned for Apollo
Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly, and Fred Haise train for their new mission. Days before the launch, Mattingly is discovered to have been exposed to rubella, and the flight surgeon demands his replacement with Mattingly 's backup, Jack Swigert, as a safety precaution. After a few days in space Swigert performs a standard housekeeping procedure, one of two liquid oxygen tanks explodes, emptying its contents into space and sending the craft tumbling. The other tank is soon found to be leaking. Mission Control aborts the Moon landing, Lovell and Haise hurriedly power up Aquarius as a "lifeboat" for the return home, and Swigert shuts down Odyssey before its battery power runs out. In Houston, Kranz rallies his team to come up with a plan to bring the astronauts home safely, declaring "failure is not an option". Controller recruits Mattingly to help restart Odyssey for the final
In 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert astronauts on America’s fifth mission to the moon. The Apollo spacecraft was made up of two independent spacecraft joined by orbiter Odyssey and lander Aquarius. The crew lived in Odyssey. 205,000 miles from Earth, the number two oxygen tank in the Service Module (SM) exploded and the system buttons lighting up. In Mission Control as oxygen pressure fell and power disappeared. Lovell calls out, "Houston, we've got a problem." Minutes after the explosion, the astronauts are forced to abandon the CM ‘Odyssey’. An emergency transfer is made to transfer computer information and the astronauts into the Aquarius as a lifeboat.
Apollo 13 mission was a failure because when the astronauts were in space they were doomed. The astronauts were Lovell, Swigert, and Haise. All of the men knew the spacecraft and were in World War 2 and they were pilots in the war. Then they were about to crash when they thought a meteor.
Five words spoken by Tom Hanks’ character, Commander Jim Lovell, in the 1995 film Apollo 13, decidedly begun the change in objective for the Apollo 13 lunar mission. This line would soon become known as one of Tom Hanks’ most famous spoken lines in his acting career, but for his character and the others in the film, it would make the lunar mission a matter of life and death. The story of Apollo 13 took place in 1970, revolving around the third lunar landing mission in the Apollo space program which infamously went awry. After an oxygen tank in the astronauts’ spacecraft exploded and damaged the lunar module, the astronauts were forced to abort the mission and find a way to get back home. Although the astronauts did return home safely, the following investigation into the mission revealed a series of “fateful encounters” that could have played a role into the failure of Apollo 13. The fateful encounters that were primarily blamed for Apollo 13’s failure were a last-minute change in crew
From countdown to splashdown, Apollo 11's mission was filled with some surprising twists and turns. It took a combination of luck, determination and guts for the crew of Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong to get the Eagle to the surface of the moon with only 30 seconds of fuel remaining! Experience the moments leading up to the lunar landing with me.
Apollo 13 emphasized the impact the Apollo 13 mission had on the families of the astronauts. Families (wives, children, and parents) were immensely worried about their loved ones being launched into space, but they were also overjoyed with seeing them live their dreams of going to the moon. These emotions intensified as the launch came near and finally when the mission took off. James Lovell’s wife, for example, had nightmares of Lovell getting into an accident and drifting off in space. His mother, on the other hand, believed that he would successfully come back to Earth, when she said, “If they could launch a washing machine into space, my Jimmy can drive it back.” The Cold War, though not a military-based war, was an emotional time for Americans.
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 is not an option", voiced by Gene Kranz.
Apollo 13’s crew was on a mission to the moon when an oxygen tank exploded. “Houston we’ve had a problem here,” reported Lovel. The ground control also faced many setbacks. They had to find out how to improvise electricity, save oxygen, and use supplies wisely. Paragraph 10 says, “Ground controllers in Houston faced a formidable task. Completely new procedures had to be written and tested in the simulator before being passed up to the crew.” The crew had to persevere to make quick, life saving, decisions as a team. After a long while of decision making, worrying, and improvising supplies, the crew finally made it home safely.
All of the Apollo crews and mission control teams were well trained to operate under high-stress situations. All three crew members were previously test pilots, so they were all experienced in dealing with high-risk situations with no room for error. They were able to effectively communicate the problems they were experiencing back to the crew members in mission control. Both parties were able to communicate calmly and clearly, with little to no change in tone as the accident transpired. The ground crew members related all information to the flight crew, not withholding any information that they deemed pertinent to the
On April 13, 1970, NASA's Mission Control heard the five words that no control center ever wants to hear: "We've got a problem here." Jack Swigert, an astronaut aboard the Apollo 13 aircraft, reported the problem of broken down oxygen tanks to the Houston Control Center, less than two days after its takeoff on April 11th. Those at the Control Center in Houston were unsure what had happened to the spacecraft, but knew that some sort of explosion had occurred. This so-called explosion sent Apollo 13 spinning away from the Earth at 2,000 miles per hour, 75 percent of the way to the moon. In order to get the astronauts back to the Earth's atmosphere would be to utilize the moon's gravitational pull and send them back towards home, like a slingshot. However, this procedure would require three days, and this demanded more oxygen and electricity than the crew had available to them. Eugene "Gene" Kranz, head of this flight mission, although looking on in horror, began thinking of solutions to the problem immediately after the Controls were aware of the problem on board. Knowing that the options of refueling the spacecraft with oxygen or retrieve the astronauts himself, he needed to think of a strategy for a safe return. In this sense, if his solution fails, it could result in the biggest catastrophe in NASA history.
They took the one good night’s sleep they could be guaranteed. It wasn’t for certain that the neudroids wouldn’t follow after them when they left Earth.