Apollo 13 was a 1970 Apollo space mission to the moon that suffered a critical failure en route. The three astronauts aboard - James Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise - worked with mission control to return safely after an oxygen tank exploded, endangering the spacecraft and crew's survival. The explosion forced the crew to abort their lunar landing and return to Earth earlier than planned, making emergency repairs and using the lunar module as a "lifeboat" to keep the command module's systems functioning well enough for reentry.
2. Do It NOW
Your thoughts on the video clip….
- questions?
- surprises?
- Main ideas?
3. Essential Questions
• Why do humans feel the need to explore?
• What are the pro’s and con’s of exploring?
• What kind of exploration is most important today? Why?
• Are we as humans better off because of space
exploration?
• Exploration creates winners and losers. Who might these
people be?
4. Why bother?
“I think we're going to the moon
because it's in the nature of the human
being to face challenges. It's by the
nature of his deep inner soul ... we're
required to do these things just as
salmon swim upstream .”
Neil Armstrong
Source: www.wikiquotes.com
6. The Early Rockets: WWII
World War Two: German V1 Rocket
(V1 =Vengeance Weapon 1)
• a.k.a. Pilot-less plane (PP) Buzz bomb or
Doodlebug.
V1 Rocket Launching Ramp
The V1 “Buzz Bomb”
9. The Early Rockets
Launch Pad in France
•Weight: 13 Tons
•Speed: 3,000 miles/hour
•No warning
•14 attacks on London in
1944
•London was terrorized
10. Wernher von Braun: the father
of the space program
•Von Braun was a talented German scientist who led
the V1 and V2 programs in Germany
•After the Nazi’s were defeated in 1945, he was asked
by the Russians, British and Americans to join their
weapons programs.
•He eventually surrendered to the Americans avoiding
German soldiers ordered to kill engineers.
•Von Braun emigrated to the U.S. in and took a lead
position designing rockets to propel people into space.
•He was quoted as saying,
““Don't tell me that man doesn'tDon't tell me that man doesn't
belong out there. Man belongsbelong out there. Man belongs
wherever he wants to go - and he'llwherever he wants to go - and he'll
do plenty well when he gets there.”do plenty well when he gets there.”
11. Canadian Connection
1. CF 105 Jet Fighter Interceptor: “The
Avro Arrow”
2. Kamloops aerospace engineer James
Chamberlain
13. Avro Arrow: Canada’s Broken
Dream
• Program scrapped by the Prime
Minister John Diefenbaker (1959).
• Costs were said to be too high.
• Avro's team of world-class engineers
find jobs south of the border.
14. Canadian Connection
• James Chamberlain:
– In 1961, Chamberlin began work on a two-man spacecraft
capable of changing its orbit, docking with other spacecraft,
and permitting astronauts to "walk" in space
– Helped design the lunar orbit rendezvous mode, which
utilized a lunar module for operations on the lunar surface
– 2 space craft: one orbits and waits, while the other lands and
takes off
Source: www.spaceistheplace.ca
16. The Space Race
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to
go to the moon in this decade and do the
other things, not because they are easy, but
because they are hard.
President John F. Kennedy
Sept. 12, 1962
Source: www.thespacerace.com
17. The Space Race
Timeline
1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
May 1961:
first American
in space
June 1966:
Surveyor 1
Lands on the
moon
(unmanned)
Dec 1968:
Apollo 8
orbits
the moon
x10
(Jim
Lovell)
1957:
First satellite
Launched
Sputnik
April 1961:
1st
man in space
Yuri Gagarin
1965:
1st
spacewalk
Alexi Leonov
Sept 1968:
Zond 5
1st
to
orbit moon
and return
Feb 1966:
Luna 9 1st
to
land on the
Moon
(unmanned)
June 1969:
Men on the
Moon
Armstrong
Aldrin
U.S.A.
Soviet Union (Russia)
18. MAN ON THE MOON 1969
Apollo XI Liftoff
Neil Armstrong
22. Apollo XIII Mission
Original Mission Objectives:
1. Precision lunar landing in the Fra Mauro highlands with the
primary objectives of exploring the Moon
2. Surveying and sampling the Imbrium Basin, and activating
the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP),
3. Further developing the capability to work in the lunar
environment.
4. Photographing future exploration sites.
23. “Houston. We’ve had a problem”
• When Apollo 13 was 321,860 kilometers
(199,990 mi) from Earth, an oxygen tank in
the service module exploded
Note the
damage to
the outer hull
Note the damage
to the outer hull
24. Omens and Premonitions
• Omen (n) a sign of something about to
happen.
• Premonition (n) a feeling of evil to
come.
What are some examples?What are some examples?
Do you believe in premonitions orDo you believe in premonitions or
omens?omens?
28. Our Own Voyage of Discovery
Apollo 13 (1995)
Starring:
Tom Hanks
Kevin Bacon
Gary Sinise
Bill Paxton
Ed Harris
Kathleen Quinlan
Directed by:
Ron Howard
Academy Awards:
Best Film Editing
Best Sound
