Apollo 13 Mission (OA) (Overcoming Adversity)
Judy L. Hasday
Language: English
Pages: 120
ISBN: 0791053105
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The 1970 NASA mission to the moon became more dramatic than any fictional story when an explosion on the ship put the astronauts' lives in peril.
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module and catnapped while a test was delayed. After two years of this he felt he knew the machine almost like a part of himself. “HOUSTON, WE’VE HAD A PROBLEM” Ken Mattingly, another member of “the 19,” was slated to serve as command module pilot for the Apollo 13 mission. Like Haise, 34-year-old Mattingly had spent countless hours learning everything he could about his vessel. Tall, quiet, and unassuming, Mattingly at first glance did not seem to fit the profile of a rugged naval aviator who
not leave the ship until the last of the power-down switches had been flipped. He took one last look around. The command module, now dark and lifeless, was going to get very cold very soon. He only hoped that when the time came to power the CM back up, it would actually come back to life long enough to get them home. Having finished his procedures, Swigert now had to wait until it was time to prepare Odyssey for reentry. Squeezing in between Lovell and Haise in Aquarius, Swigert said to them,
unfathomable that anyone would ever believe that we’re gonna end up with this crew stranded somewhere [in space]. So it was a question of absolutely convincing everyone who had to work a problem, no matter how miniscule, that (a) they were going to [get the] right answers that they needed, and (b) they were going to add all these answers together, and we were going to get this crew home. So my concern was that somewhere, someone along the line would turn around the bit I had set in everyone’s
was also inspired by the science fiction stories he’d read as a child. Preoccupied with thoughts of space travel as a teen, he successfully launched the first liquid-propellant rocket from his aunt Effie’s backyard on March 16, 1926. Though the rocket remained in the air for only 2.5 seconds, it reached an altitude of 41 feet—the first 41 feet toward space. Over the next 15 years Goddard worked to develop the foundation of the rocketry technology that is used to this day. Oberth, a physics
“WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON” army’s Redstone Arsenal Guided Missile Division; later he became director of development at the Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville. The Redstone rocket would ultimately allow America to begin its journey into space. While von Braun was setting the United States on a course with the skies, his Russian counterpart, Sergei Korolev, was doing the same in the Soviet Union’s rocket program. The Cold War, the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union for
