Movie Analysis
Apollo 13
Yara Shikh
In the movie Apollo 13, a lot of problems and challenges faced the four astronauts, Jem, Ken, Jack and Fred. The first event was done when they were sitting all together, and saw the fire that happened in Apollo 1, the accident occurred during the Plugs Out Integrated Test. The purpose of this test was to demonstrate all space vehicle systems and operational procedures in as near a flight configuration as practical and to verify systems capability in a simulated launch. After the test, a fire blast went on because all the we need to turn the fire “fire triangle” where there, the high-pressure pure oxygen environment fanned the flames and the crew struggled to get out of the capsule. The best solution
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The second thing they faced was that one of the astronauts could not go on the Apollo 13, due to a virus he had, which is Measles. Ken who really wanted to go on the trip, figured out that he can not just a few days before the trip, after the blood test they did for the astronauts who were going on the trip. The solution was they made another astronaut called Jack to go on the trip instead of Ken, and do what Ken was supposed to do. Jack was trained to this, so he was familiar with it. Third: When they enter the orbit, one engine stopped working, so the problem is, if the engine fails, the launch could fail too. What they did, was burning the other engines a bit longer, so it was not a really big issue. Then, After the explosion, they realized that one of the oxygen tanks was leaking which causes a danger for the astronaut's life for two reasons, first: losing oxygen and not be able to survive. Two: completing the fire triangle which might cause an explosion, and they will all die. It also caused loss of two of three fuel cells. What they did is closing the hatch between the CM and the LM, but the stubborn lid wouldn't stay shut. After the plan did not work and the crew and ground controllers knew they would lose all oxygen, which meant that the last fuel cell also would …show more content…
And one of the most stressful thing they faced, was when their fuel and oxygen were about to end, so there was a risk on their lives. The scientists on the ground debated on whether to go around the moon or come straight back. Around the moon, was gonna use less energy “fuel” but it was going to take longer and maybe they were going to lose oxygen. The straight back path, was going to take less time, but it was going to use more energy, since it was faster. The path they chose, was around the moon one, and they chose it because it use less energy, and people on earth, were trying to figure out a way so the oxygen will last longer. People on earth, were really concerned with the amount of power the spacecraft had, because they were afraid that the fuel won’t be enough for the astronauts to go back home “Earth”. To make the power last longer, they chose to make the spaceship go around the moon so less energy will be used, they also asked the astronauts to shut down the computer or anything they are not using and might use energy, to save it for them to go back to earth. The quality of air in the spacecraft was a concern, afraid that the astronauts won’t have enough oxygen, so they will not survive, especially after they lost a huge amount of
The Space Race was a 20th century competition between the soviet union And the United States for supremacy in spaceflight ability. The launch date for apollo 13 was originally in March of 1970 but later the launch date switched to april. During one of the countdown demonstrations the Kennedy Space Center encountered problems with the oxygen tanks in the service module. When the apollo 13 mission took off their main goal was to land in the Fra Mauro area on the moon. An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled the spacecraft during the flight and the crew were forced to orbit the moon and return to earth without landing. The Apollo 13 mission was launched on April 11th in the year 1970. For the first few days of the flight the crew ran into a couple minor accidents, but Apollo 13 was looking like the smoothest flight of the program. They aborted the mission after 56 hours of flight due to an explosion in the oxygen tanks. “At 5 ½ minutes after liftoff John Swigert, Fred Haise and James Lovell felt a little vibration then the center engine of the S-II stage shut down two minutes early. This caused the remaining 4 engines to burn 34 seconds longer than planned, and the S-IVB third stage had to burn nine seconds longer to put Apollo 13 in orbit.” (nasa.gov) At 55 hours and 46 minutes the crew was finishing a live tv broadcast showing how well they were doing and how they comfortably lived.
All of the Apollo crews and mission control teams were well trained to operate under high-stress situations. All three crew members were previously test pilots, so they were all experienced in dealing with high-risk situations with no room for error. They were able to effectively communicate the problems they were experiencing back to the crew members in mission control. Both parties were able to communicate calmly and clearly, with little to no change in tone as the accident transpired. The ground crew members related all information to the flight crew, not withholding any information that they deemed pertinent to the
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motto that carried him through the Apollo 13 crisis, is a major theme of his
“Failure is not an option” the Commander in charge of the control room is heard saying these words. These are wise words to keep team motivated. In summary here we see the three astronauts fighting for their lives as they had not power and oxygen to survive and this concluded their trip and they needed a quick plan to take them quick to the earth. This cancelled the normal lunar landing. After a lengthy investigation it was deduced that the cause for the failure occurred in 1965 when the underrated component had to be replaced. This was during the designed modification; this oversight appeared to have affected the internal heating elements of the tank.
After safely exiting the Earth’s atmosphere and heading on course, a routine oxygen tank stir that was required often during space missions caused a coil in the tank to break loose and erupt, creating new unforeseen problems. The blast forced open most of the oxygen tanks as they leaked into space, increased the levels of carbon dioxide within the command module the men were traveling in, and severely decreased their power capabilities. Immediately NASA assembled the best and brightest men they had on staff to assess the situation and Flight Director Gene Kranz (played by Ed Harris) called off the Moon landing, changing the final task of the mission to a safe return home. Through repeated calculation, experimentation by Ken Mattingly who knew the module systems well, and a bit of luck, the men managed to slingshot themselves around the Moon, using its gravity to head back home on course. With...
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