Apollo 13: America's Third Moon Mission

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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

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