"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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The film Apollo 13‚ portrayed many organizational behavior and leadership skills beginning to end. The success of leadership can be seen from the two key teams involved in the mission. The flight director at NASA‚ Gene Kranz was in charge of the right team in the mission control‚ and space crew commander Jim Lovell‚ with his extensive experience being an active leader to his team in space. The two leaders of the film‚ showed effective individual and situational leadership skills as they managed the
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Apollo 13 Synopsis On July 20‚ 1969‚ veteran astronaut Jim Lovell hosts a party for other astronauts and their families‚ who watch on television as their colleague Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Lovell‚ who orbited the Moon on Apollo 8‚ tells his wife Marilyn that he intends to return‚ to walk on its surface. On October 30‚ while giving a VIP tour of NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building‚ Lovell is informed by his boss Deke Slayton that he and his crew
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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
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In the move Apollo 13 the stages of group development can be seen in the relationships with the Astronauts Lovell‚ Haise‚ Mattingly and Swigert. When we first see the Astronauts they are a well-oiled machine. They know each other’s movements and they can predict what one another is going to do next. The Astronauts are confident in each other which make them more confident in the success of their mission. Then Mattingly is removed from the mission just two days before take-off and replaced with
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Leadership Theories Analysis using the movie Apollo 13 Vision and Value Apollo 13 demonstrates the richness of leadership principles and values‚ especially focusing on team solidity. The movie illustrates how the leaders can develop a vision and values‚ and how the teams can collaborate under high stress situation. In the beginning of the movie the vision of the Apollo 13 project was to land the astronaut’s on the surface of moon. But the unexpected explosion in the service module created a
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1970‚ Apollo 13 was launched. It was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the moon. Apollo 13 and Space Exploration was a big event for the world and it still impacts us today of what we know about space. This period of time when Apollo 13 was launched and the Space Race was active was during the Cold War‚ 1947-1991. Despite Apollo 13 was a life and death situation for the people on board and the original mission was a failure. Apollo 13 was
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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. This routine mission to the moon suddenly becomes a survival mission to safely return home to Earth. The film details the circumstances affecting two separate but cohesive teams. The purpose of this case analysis is to identify the critical events‚ explain the underlying causes of
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Green Team Apollo 13 Case Analysis The primary questions and issues you debated and discussed (i.e.‚ what did your team think was most relevant about the case?). First‚ the green team discussed the success of the mission. We had a split jury on whether or not we thought the mission was successful. Both sides of the argument were well supported and we agreed to disagree with the following conclusions: one side took the stance that the mission was not successful because they did not make it to the
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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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