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    Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins is experiencing during this 47 minutes of each lunar revolution when he’s behind the Moon with no one to talk to except his tape recorder aboard Columbia." -Apollo 11 Mission Control On July 20th‚ 1969‚ at 13:46 UTC‚ the Apollo 11 Lunar Module "Eagle"‚ separates from its parent craft‚ the Command Module "Columbia"‚ and with two of our nations finest pilots- two astronauts- aboard begins its decent toward the lunar surface. The media turns

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    In the movie Apollo 13 three astronauts go up to space in the space craft odyssey and encounter many problems. The astronauts‚ Jim Lovell‚ Jack Swigert and Fred Haise were on a rushed mission to go to the moon when Jack went to go stir the oxygen tanks and one of them exploded. The explosion led to a whole host of problems. The astronauts had to abort the mission and focus on a safe return home. A monomyth plotline is when a person leaves a place‚ encounters obstacles and comes back a different

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    Karan Manwani GB 215- 012 Apollo 13 Emotional Competence Framework As the movie progresses the crew is in a critical situation where they may not be able to make it back to Earth alive. We see the different features of Personal and Social competence enacted by mission control on the ground and the crew in space. Self-Awareness I. Emotional awareness: Gene is effectively able to control his emotions as complications in the re-entry develop II. Accurate self-assessment: Gene knows without

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    Apollo 13 When the movie begins you can see that there is a barbeque going on at Jim Lovell’s house. You could draw the conclusion that Jim has worked with the others before at some point. This is where the forming begins Jim invites other astronauts over to watch the first landing on the moon. All of these men have a common goal‚ which is going to the moon. This is also Jim’s interpersonal need to be around others who want to go to the moon as well. The next phase is the storming phase. We know

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    Cited: Apollo 13. Dir. Ron Howard. Perf. Tom Hanks. Imagine Studios‚ 1995. DVD. Anissimov‚ Michael. “What Was the Space Race?” WiseGEEK. N.p.‚ 2003. Web. 12 Apr. 2013. Ellis-Christensen‚ Tricia‚ and O. Wallace. “Who is Jim Lovell?” WiseGEEK. Conjecture‚ 12 Mar. 2012

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    in 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

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    Apollo 13 directed by Ron Howard is the story of the real space mission that took place in 1969. The three astronauts had always dreamed of landing on the moon but not long after the astronauts launched into space did they realize that the task would be near impossible due to an explosion of an oxygen tank. Getting home safe became their next mission. A character in this film from whom I learned something is Gene Kranz played by Ed Harris. I learned that thinking calmly helps you and people around

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    Movie Character Analysis How have you related‚ reacted‚ thought about the believability of those characteristics in reinforcing the definitions and connecting the characters to heroic cycle. (Mythic‚ Romantic‚ Tragic‚ Realistic) Movie 1: Apollo 13 Apollo 13 is a movie about a space mission that involved 3 astronauts. The movie is based off a real event and portrays the actual event very well. The Apollo 13 mission was to go on the moon after Neil Armstrong had been on it through the Apollo 11 mission

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    Apollo 13 -movie analysis( decision making) The director Ron Howard in his epic recreation of “Apollo 13” brilliantly captures the suspense‚ the fear‚ and the excitement during the strenuous days of the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis‚ back in 1970. At the beginning all goes smoothly when the three astronauts Jim Lovell‚ Jack Swigert‚ and Fred Haise played by Tom Hanks‚ Kevin Bacon‚ and Bill Paxton respectfully‚ were half way through their mission when the Apollo 13 mission suffered a terrible

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    he’s assuming here. Another reason that has Mark convinced that the Earth is flat and not round is because a man went and interviewed all the astronauts of Apollo 13 to talk about their adventures that they thought but was instead a trick to get them to swear on the Bible that they did see that the Earth was round. 
 When the astronauts of Apollo 13 were outraged that they were asked to swear on the Bible‚ the interviewer was very shocked to see such a reaction from them. To Mark that may have meant

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