1970 the Apollo 13 Lunar Mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Aboard Apollo 13‚ 3 astronauts—Jim Lovell‚ Jack Swigert and Fred Haise—were seeking to be the third mission to land on the moon. 56 hours into the flight the members of the ground crew of Mission Control in Houston‚ Texas listened as the 5 words NASA never wants to hear resonated through the speakers: “Houston we have a problem.” These words were immortalized during the apprehensive days of the Apollo 13 lunar
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research. I remember hearing often about my mother’s cousin Don Lind‚ who was an astronaut and seeing his picture in the family album. I thought it was pretty cool to be related to someone who actually flew into space. Project Apollo‚ or the Apollo Program was the human spaceflight program organized by the United States. (NASA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration‚ endeavored to land the first human on the moon. The project ran from 1969-1972.[1] What questions
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Management Strategies Lessons from Apollo 13 On April 11‚ 1970‚ just a few months after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon‚ Apollo 13 flight director Gene Kranz gives the green light from Houston’s Mission Control Center for launch. The problems with the Apollo 13 mission started as soon the rocket climbs into the sky‚ but the craft successfully reach orbit and followed its trajectory to the moon. The three astronauts responsible for the Apollo 13 mission in space were the mission commander Jim
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man on the moon--hence‚ the Apollo Program. These Apollo Missions are significant in that America received technical credibility and hasted the end of the Cold War in our favor. Also‚ Carole Stott‚ a long-time astronomer
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The actual launch of the Apollo 13 was on April 11‚ 1970. Two days into the mission it looked like the smoothest flight that the Apollo program had ever seen. "The spacecraft is in real good shape as far as we are concerned. We’re bored to tears down here." said Joe Kerwin of mission control (3). At 55 hours the crew held a TV broadcast for 49 minutes where they showed off their living conditions and how they worked in weightless situations. Nine minutes after the broadcast mission control instructed
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Apollo One is the name given to the AS-204 spacecraft after it was destroyed by fire during a training exercise. January 27‚ 1967 the crew of Apollo commonly known as Saturn 204 began training for the first Apollo mission. On this mission they were going to orbit Earth‚ they were scheduled to launch February 21. The AS-204 mission was scheduled for the first quarter of 1967‚ having already missed a target date for the last quarter of 1966. The shuttle was placed on launch pad 34 at the Kennedy
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"Apollo 13" By starring Tom Hanks‚ Apollo 13 is a American drama film based on the book of "Last Moon" by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. At the begining‚ Jim (Tom Hanks)‚ Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise) are the crew assigned to the Appllo 13 spacecraft. Their vision is to walk on the moon. However‚ few days before launching‚ Ken was informed that he could not fly because he had in exposed to the measles a week before. Jack Swigert took his place only with three days of
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Apollo 13 When Gene Kranz says that it will be there finest hour‚ he was completely true. It will be the finest hour for the Apollo 13 mission. They “won” while failing‚ because a malfunction which NASA had little to no control over which looked life threatening hit the astronauts and NASA managed to overcome the problem they had been faced with. The Apollo 13 mission in general was a failure because it stood no chance of accomplishing the goal it was supposed to. The teamwork that NASA developed
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Many problem skills had to be used and improvised during the movie‚ Apollo 13‚ but the one that amazed me was when Jim and Fred had to manually adjust the ship. I believe this held a significant amount of importance for getting the astronauts home. Everyone knew that to be able to reenter the earth’s atmosphere the ship only had a tiny amount of room for error. When NASA informed the astronauts that they needed to do another burn‚ but they don’t have enough power to start up the ship for the computers
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“‘That’s one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind’” (“The Apollo Missions”). Neil Armstrong spoke these famous words the first day anyone had stepped foot on the moon. It was not just that any man landed on the moon‚ but it was an American man. The United States of America was proud to say that they were the first on the moon‚ especially when it came to competing with other countries such as the Soviet Union. The Americans had been going back and forth with the Soviet Union for decades
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