Apollo 13

A detailed Summary of Apollo 13

The Film, Apollo 13, presents many different arguments. The movie is set in the 1960's and is about Apollo 13's Mission to land on the moon. The Commander of the mission, Jim Lowell, was selected by fate six months prior to launch because the original Commander had a serious infection in his ear. Fred Haise and Ken Mattingly were the other two selected. They would under go hours and hours of vigorous simulation and training. Only two days prior to launch fate would strike again. Blood test revealed that Mattingly had the missiles and would not be allowed to do the mission. Jack Swirget was then selected to take his place. Their voyage didn't get much media attention, except when things started to go wrong. Something malfunctioned and things started to get out of control. Power and Guidance systems were down and there Oxygen supply was rapidly dwindling. With the odds against them and time running out, the crew aboard and back at Mission Control brainstormed figuring out ways to make the crippled capsule safe and to bring the three astronauts home. After using innovative thinking because their technology failed, the crew was successful on bringing the astronauts home and alive. Through this story, the director brings

out different arguments. The Director believes that people are intrigued by tragedy. The Director also believes that when technology fails, we will have to rely on the foundation of technology, which is what we have, human initiative and engineering. Finally the Director brings forth the argument that something might go wrong so another thing can go right.

The Director also brings out the argument that something may go wrong in order for other things can go right. In the film, during press coverage of the stranded Apollo 13, the news runs an interview with Jim Lowell. In this interview Lowell describes a dark night flying in a plane and trying to land on an aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier could not be found by Lowell. His instruments were shutdown and blank, he was flying blind in the night. Then to make things worse his cabin light went out. With darkness surrounding him he looked into the water and saw a green glow. It was algae illuminating. Aircraft carriers can turn up the algae, so in other words this was a trail right to the Aircraft carrier. If it wasn't for his cabin light malfunctioning and going out, he would have never found the trail of algae and would have never found the aircraft carrier. Something else had to go wrong so something else could go right. This is a mirror of the Apollo 13 situation. Since Ken Mattingly had a blood test that said he was going to be sick with the missiles, he had to stay hom

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