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Apollo 13

Date Submitted: 08/02/2003 05:34:44
Length: 1 pages (306 words)
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Apollo 13 On July 20, 1969, Jim Lovell sat at home and watched Neil Armstrong become the first man to walk on the moon. Jim Lovell gets the news that Allan Shepard got sick with an inner ear infection and that he was now going to be the captain of the Apollo 13 mission. So, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Ken Maddingly went in to training for the mission to the moon. Then just two days prior to the …

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…they are slowly being poisoned by CO2 in the air. The crew has to make a ventilation box to clean up the air. Maddingly figures out a way to save enough power to get them home successfully. The process works and everything seems to be in order. They release the service module and Aquarius and prepare for reentry into the atmosphere. Every thing goes to plan and they reentered fine and made it home successfully.

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