Apollo 13

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Apollo 13

• The Successful Failure
• Written by Ariel Pilgrim

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The Beginning of Apollo 13

• In the 1960s and 70s, NASA had a space program
  called Apollo. The 13th mission, Apollo 13, was
  known as a successful failure. It was a mission
  that would change NASA forever.

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The Crew

• The crew for this mission was Jim Lovell (James
  A. Lovell Jr.), Commander, Fred Haise (Fred W.
  Haise, Jr.), Lunar Module Pilot, and Jack Swigert
  (John L. Swigert Jr.), Command Module Pilot.

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The Backup Crew

• The backup crew consisted of John W. Young, Ken
  Mattingly, and Charles M. Duke.

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Launch

• Apollo 13 launched April 11, 1970, from the
  Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida
  at 200 P.M.

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Broadcast

• Two days and Seven hours into the mission,
  they made an unaired broadcast on their lifestyle
  in space. But, they didnt know that people
  around the country werent watching, and they
  wouldnt know until they got back.

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Why werent they watching?

• The reason no one was watching was because
  NASA figured since Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, had
  already landed on the moon, nobody would want to
  watch.

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Explosion

• Nine minutes after the broadcast, there was an
  explosion. Oxygen tanks 1 and 2 were both
  destroyed. They lost most of their supply of
  electricity, light, and water, and they were
  200,000 miles away from Earth.

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The Big Misquote

• One of the most misquoted phrases in American
  History came from this mission. What is often
  quoted is, Houston we have a problem. The
  correct quote is, Houston, weve had a problem,
  here, said by Jack Swigert.

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Wake-Up!!!

• Soon afterward NASA worked very quickly to
  develop a procedure for powering up the Command
  Module after its long cold sleep. After the
  explosion, the crew was forced to leave the
  Command Module and power it down to save power
  for reentry to Earths atmosphere.

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Splashdown

• Splashdown was April 17, 1970, at 107 P.M.
  only four miles from the prime recovery ship, Iwo
  Jima.

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Jim Lovell Today

• After leaving NASA, Jim Lovell became
  president of Lovell Communications and serves as
  a chairman of Mission HOME, a program that tries
  to encourage enthusiasm and support for space.
  Lovell is married and has four children. He and
  his family live near Chicago.

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Jack Swigert after Apollo

• After the mission, Swigert ran for the US
  Senate in his home state and was defeated. In
  1982 he ran for Congress in the newly created 6th
  Congressional District. He was diagnosed with a
  malignant tumor, which was surgically removed,
  during the election. He won, but not before the
  cancer spread. Swigert died December 27, 1982,
  before he was sworn into office.

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Haise still involved with Space

• In June 1979, Haise resigned from NASA to
  become vice president of space programs for
  Grumman Aerospace Corporation. He is now retired
  and living in Texas.