Apollo 13 Thesis

On April 11, 1970 Apollo 13 took flight to the moon. Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell were the three men who had the privilege to be the three astronauts that would man this flight to the moon. Days before the mission, the original main pilot, Ken Mattingly was exposed to the measles and was believed to have fallen ill, so back up pilot Jim Lovell was called in to replace him. Now that the crew had been assembled it was time for launch. Before the three men had taken on the challenge of Apollo 13 they each had their own history with NASA. Originally Apollo 13 was looking like one of the smoothest flights yet due to the minimal amount of errors that occurred. When the men had landed the spacecraft there was some test to find out what
Lovell was born on March 25, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up to have a wife and four children. After attending many schools and obtaining many degrees, Mr. Lovell was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1962 and was a part of many missions into space. He was a backup pilot for Gemini 4, a backup commander for Gemini 9, also a backup commander for Apollo 11. On December 4, 1965 he took part in Gemini mission 7 with Frank Borman. Also, in Gemini mission 12 on November 11, 1966. His fourth mission was his duty of Spacecraft Commander on the Apollo 13 flight. Fred Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi he also had a wife and four children. Fred hais was not as experienced as Jim Lovell was. Mr. Haise was one of the nineteen astronauts selected in 1966. His experience with NASA was that he was a backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 8 and for Apollo 11, he also served as a backup spacecraft commander for Apollo 16. His fourth mission was on Apollo 13 when Fred Haise was the lunar module pilot. In Denver, Colorado August 30, 1931 John Swigert was born. Swigiert was also one of the nineteen pilots chosen in 1966. He had only two missions: he was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 7 mission and the Apollo 13 mission. Sadly, on December 27,1982 John L. Swigert Jr. died of
Without those two things Apollo 13 would have never made it back down to Earth. When Apollo 13 had made it back scientists had wanted to know what had caused the explosion on Apollo 13. The Apollo 13 Accident Review Board had finally identified the cause of the explosion which was meant to be an improvement to the CM. The voltage in the heaters would be raised from twenty-eight to sixty-five volts and the improvement did not suit the heaters. So, when turned on during testing the heaters had reached to temperatures up to 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, this was missed when undergoing final testing. After being damaged for up to eight hours of the overheating the next time the tank was filled with oxygen it was a potential bomb and the bomb did go off when it was already too late. This explosion had caused a rupture in oxygen tank two which then damaged oxygen tank