Apollo 13: Flight vs. Hollywood On April 11‚ 1970‚ 1:13 p.m‚ Apollo 13 was launched at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Fred W. Haise‚ Jr. who would be the Lunar Module Pilot‚ James A. Lovell‚ Jr. who would be the Commander‚ and John L. Swigert‚ Jr. who would be the Command Module Pilot‚ and would replace Ken Mattingly‚ would be the crew for this operation. This would be the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo Space Program‚ and the third intended to land on the moon. When mission control
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and Jim Lovell train for this moment in the NASA program‚ but alas Apollo 13 is the first aborted Apollo mission. There are scarcely words that can describe the disappointment of these three men‚ but at the time‚ that was only a minor adversity during their space mission. The malfunctions of the lunar module Aquarius not only surprise Houston‚ but it leads the crew to experience many close encounters with death. In Apollo 13‚ director Ron Howard shows that in times of desperation‚ people must contribute
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California Proposition 13 Name: Institution: California Proposition 13 What is proposition 13? Property taxes in California have been a controversial issue for very many years. In mid 1978‚ approximately ⅔ of voters in California passed proposition 13. Before it had been passed‚ property taxes increased almost annually according to the assessed value of the property. In the 1970s‚ there was a remarkable growth in the real estate market and the value of homes rapidly went up. Property values
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Apollo 13 “Houston We ’ve Got A Problem” 12/1/11 Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third mission by NASA to land a space shuttle onto the moon. The crew aboard the ship consisted of James A. Lovell‚ Jr.‚ John L. Swigert‚ Jr.‚ and Fred W. Haise‚ Jr. (KSC). The launch date for Apollo 13 was set for April 11‚ 1970 at 13:13 Houston time (James A. Lovell). The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum summarizes the events of the Apollo 13 incident as “An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled
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On April 11‚ 1970‚ three men were scheduled to fly to and land on the moon. The mission labeled Apollo 13. Alan Shepard‚ Stuart Roosa‚ and Edgar Mitchell made-up the original crew members of Apollo 13‚ but because of an inner-ear surgery‚ Alan Shepard felt unprepared to fly Apollo13. Jim Lovell‚ the commander of Apollo 14‚ was then approached and asked if he would mind switching flights with Shepard. Jim did not think there would be a great difference between the two flights and wanted to get back
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First of all‚ the movie was focused more about the mission of Apollo 13 than Jim Lovell’s life. However‚ he was still the main character of the movie. Some of the most important similarities were Jim Lovell was married to Marilyn Lovell and had four kids. Jim’s older kid was a girl named Barbara Gerlach‚ his second kids was a boy; James Gerlach.The second youngest was Jeffrey Gerlach and lastly Susan Gerlach.There was slight mention of his mother unlike the biography where his mother was mentioned
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Survey of Lifespans Professor Nalbandian Due Date: October 1‚ 2012 Topic 1 : Activity 2 Genetic and Chromosomal Abnormalities There are many genetic and chromosomal abnormalities that ail much of our population today. The three that I chose to discuss‚ not only peak my interest‚ but are also disorders that I plan to work with in the future: Klinefelter Syndrome‚ Fragile X Syndrome‚ and Downs Syndrome. All three disorders impair those that they affect‚ in mental‚ cognitive and physical
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The Apollo 13 flight demonstrated teamwork and solid decision-making in a way that had saved their lives. Among the many life-threatening problems that arose while they drifted through space‚ the astronauts stayed calm and collected. They said it was because they did not think about the risks and just focused on the task at hand. The first problem occurred after they stirred up the oxygen tanks‚ which made the tanks explode due to fault wiring. They were running out of oxygen in a matter of minutes
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Ron Howard’s re-creation of the happenings aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 flight combined some of the biggest talent in Hollywood to produce a masterful film. Apollo 13 takes us back in time‚ to the late 1960’s and early 70’s‚ when America’s NASA space program was thriving and the world stood aside to see who would reach the moon first. The impacts of space program are still evident to this day. It is even said that by beating the Russians to the moon‚ we established ourselves are the top power in the
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Apollo 13 Formations of group dynamics are important to achieving a set of goals set forth by a group of individuals. Groups tend to follow a natural course of cohesion and function. Research has been done to understand group dynamics and one of the most widely accepted models is that of Bruce Tuckman. His research shows groups follow a set path of Forming‚ Storming‚ Norming and Performing. Apollo 13 gives several examples of Tuckman’s model. In the following‚ we will touch briefly on the
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