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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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    Executive Summary In this report‚ film was used as a learning resource to analyze selected organizational behaviour models found 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

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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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    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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    FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION - Gene Kranz‟s leadership in movie < Apollo 13> INTRODUCTION Apollo 13‚ the 1995 motion picture directed by Ron Howard‚ is the true story of Jim Lovell‚ Fred Haise‚ and Jack Swigert‚ a team of astronauts reassigned to a space flight with diminished preparation time. Apollo 13 Mission in 1970 was planning to land on the moon as a routine‚ but after astronauts found oxygen tank‟s explosion and leaking‚ this routine mission to the moon suddenly

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    math in order to get people in space and in the 1950’s she was the only black female aeronautical engineer. Who remembers the Apollo missions? Mary Jackson calculated the trajectory for the Apollo missions‚ she helped get Apollo 11 into space and she also helped save Apollo 13. Mary Jackson also calculated the trajectory for the mercury project. She later received the Apollo group achievement

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