Apollo 13 is a film made in 1995 telling the events of the aborted lunar mission in 1970 of “Apollo 13”; this was America’s third moon landing mission. The problem that I identified in the start of the film is in the original team of three astronauts, one of them had either become ill or will become because he was exposed to the measles. This happened a few days right before the launch. So, they wanted to replace the sick one and use a different astronaut. At first the other astronaut was against this but then his boss threatened to put him on later mission, then he complies. At the time, replacing the astronaut with the new one seemed like the right thing to do to solve the issue but it was semi-successful. It solved the sick astronaut problem but the other two astronauts have not worked and practiced with the new replacement as much and overall wasn’t comfortable with him. This was also very scary for them because they were used to practicing with each other. Then, a few days before the launch they had to get a new member and go to space with him it’s not rationale it just feels overall rushed. They must obviously confident in their own …show more content…
Meanwhile in outer space the astronauts were suffering in freezing conditions, began to argue with each other, and carbon dioxide was approaching dangerous levels. Ground Control did end up quickly inventing a way with the limited resources to make the square filter from Apollo to be used in the round opening of Aquarius. Nevertheless, they made it work using a sock, duct tape, tubes and the limited materials the astronauts would have in space. The quick thinking worked successfully and bought them more time but they were still stuck in space. They ended up making a course correction to face the earth using Aquarius then stared up odyssey riding it back to earth parachuting into the
The speaker Ayn Rand, was incredibly passionate throughout the entire commentary. She addresses the fundamental significance of Apollo 11, stating that it is not political; it is philosophical. The audience for this particular situation would be anyone who enjoys commentaries. This publication was created by Rand, for the sole purpose of putting forward her philosophy of objectivism. The subject of this commentary was to talk about mankind itself, and how Apollo 11 completely redefined what it means to be a human.
We as Americans will always respect them, and never forget them. Lastly, President Reagan portrays the astronauts as heroes and explorers by portraying them as adventure seekers in the name of discovery. This causes the audience to believe that although they died, they would still live through advances in the space program. “And perhaps we’ve forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle; but they, the Challenger Seven, we aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly.” By saying that, Reagan led many Americans to believe that this was indeed a very hard and scary job.
More people would get involved with each consecutive mission. For example, more scientists were involved in each successive flight because they were interested in actually studying the Moon from as close as possible. So why take the risk? They had already won the race, so why risk it again?
Through constant repetition that the astronauts were great people the audience can infer that they were indeed
So after the research I have done, I have realized how awful of a disaster the Space Shuttle Challenger was. The crew risked their lives to make space travel safer and I respect that. The Challenger Crew was very brave and we will never forget
This speech was intended to inform America of the Challenge disaster. Reagan used specific pronouns to address the audience. He focused a lot on the individuals that lost someone due to this dismal occurrence. One thing that he said specifically to those close to the astronauts was, “Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace” (3). He said this to honor the astronauts and explicate how wondrous the seven astronauts were.
Have you ever been stranded on an island and had to get home? Have you ever had to face a cyclops or cannibals, or a beautiful deceiving lady? Have you ever had to save your home town? Spiderman and Odysseys both had struggles in their time.
I decided to do research about the Apollo missions and came across an article that talked about the discovery of water on the moon. In 2009, India's Chandrayaan-1 probe and two NASA spacecraft found water clinging to much of the lunar surface, which surprised many scientists. Many questions were asked after this discovery was made. Where else is there water on the moon? Did any of the other 380 kilograms of samples from the Apollo missions have clues of water that were overlooked?
During Apollo 13, there was an explosion that caused them to barely make it back to Earth. During our space unit in 5th grade, we watched the movie Apollo 13. Now, I know more about the commander of Apollo 13. Others who also watched Apollo 13 have a connection to James Lovell as well. In this mission, he had to persevere and keep trying
Reagan honors the men and women that have died, and he explains to the children who were watching at schools. Because of the visual experience of watching the death of seven astronauts on live TV, the unexpected nature of the explosion, the nation was confronted with the problem of processing and responding to the deaths, ordinary people thrust into national
Each of them played the main astronauts in the film: Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. Apollo 13 was a space aircraft that was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro area of the moon. Due to an explosion, it ended up circling around the moon. The crew ran into various problems in outer space but remained in contact with mission control. In the end, they returned to Earth safely(NASA).
“Air Raid” is a story about how human life always holds the potential to get worse and even possibly be destroyed, but the one way to prevent this catastrophic destruction is to look to the past to find the way to save the future. This is illustrated by the reflective scene after the Snatch Team has successfully returned to the future with the “goats”, or the plane survivors from 1979. The tone of this scene is very nostalgic and even hopeful as Mandy rests her head on Gene’s shoulder and adoringly watches the people of 1979 as she proclaims them as “the best” and the future’s “very brightest hope.” This hopeful, admiring, and even envious view of the people of 1979 is ironic as they have been ripped from the past, forced to travel to the future, and to start a new life to save all of the future human race which is pretty terrifying and unfortunate, yet Mandy still is envious of them as she acknowledges that even “At their lowest ebb, this very moment, they were so much better than us.” The nostalgic tone combined with Mandy’s ironic and skewed view of who holds the luck in this scenario further suggests that even if the people of 1979 see this moment as the very worst moment of their lives and as if nothing could ever get worse,
(Dennis 714) By giving the members of the space shuttle crew a recognition as “pioneers”, the speech was poised for a smooth transition from its nature as sincere eulogy into a rhetorical work with a deliberative occasion. As soon as audience received a message implying that Challenger was a beginning instead of an end and how discovery has its risk, Ronald Reagan was in a good position to elaborate his objectives on the space program. Surely, the transition between the bad news and the new hope is one of the greatest features of the speech.
He begins speaking about the disastrous occasion that was Apollo 1. Three astronauts were killed as a result of a cabin fire in 1967, but NASA has never experienced a calamity like this before. He mourns their loss, but also raises up their names in praise. “Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But we’ve never lost an astronaut in flight; we’ve never had a tragedy like this.
When Neil Armstrong first touched down on the moon in 1969, millions of people watched him take the first step and create history (Villard). Yet even as we’ve moved on from the moon landings and consider them as a pivotal point for mankind, “Forty years after U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon, many conspiracy theorists still insist the Apollo 11 moon landing was an elaborate hoax”(Than). The idea that our voyage to the moon was deliberately staged seems to resurface year after year. While the conspiracy theorists claim the moon landing was a hoax, creating a fake moon landing would have been more expensive and difficult than actually reaching the moon. The race to the moon began on October 5, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit around the earth: “When the Soviet Union launched the satellite Sputnik, on October 4, 1957, the United States experienced a technological identity crisis”(Olson).