Miya Chapman, Mia Badalamenti, Miguel Jaramillo, Anthony Saldana, Jayden Green

Mrs.Vigil
History
December 08, 2015

Apollo 13 Interviews: (Mia Badalamenti)

The three astronauts; Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert, that were apart of the Apollo 13
mission have some things to say about their horrific accident aboard the spacecraft. Jim Lovell
stated that he always wanted to be an astronaut. His first application to the US Naval
Academy was rejected. His first attempt to be a Navy pilot was also dismissed. He failed to pass
the first round of astronaut selections. His second application was successful and he joined Nasa
in 1962, making his first spaceflight three years later, aboard Gemini 7. Fred Haise, like most
astronauts of his generation, was trained as a test pilot. First he joined the Navy as a cadet in
October 1952 and worked his way up through the ranks, also serving in the Marines. Jack
Swigert had experience both in the military and with a couple of companies as a pilot. He was an
Air Force pilot between 1953 and 1956 and did tours in Japan and Korea, then shifted to work
with the Massachusetts Air National Guard and Connecticut Air National Guard. Swigert also
worked for North American Aviation Inc. and Pratt and Whitney.

Lift off : (Jayden Green)

On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 lifted off for the Moon with Commander Jim Lovell, Command
Module Pilot Jack Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise aboard. Two days later, with the
spacecraft well on its way to the Moon, an oxygen tank exploded, scrubbing the lunar landing
and putting the crew in jeopardy.Working with Mission Control in Houston, the crew used their
lunar module as a "lifeboat," and even rigged an adapter so than a command module "air
scrubber" would work in the lunar module, preventing a dangerous buildup of carbon
dioxide.The mission ended safely when the crew splashed down on April 17, 1970, but it's "cando" spirit lives on at NASA.

Apollo 13 Failure: (Anthony Saldana)

In the 1960 and 70s, NASA had a space program called Apollo, the 13th mission. Apollo 13th
was known as a successful failure. It was a mission that would change NASA forever. Apollo 13
was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro area. An explosion on board forced Apollo 13 to circle

the moon without landing. The Fra Mauro site was reassigned to Apollo 14. At five and a half
minutes after liftoff, Swigert, Haise, and Lovell felt a little vibration. Then the center engine of
the S-II stage shut down two minutes early. This caused the remaining four engines to burn 34
seconds longer than planned, and the S-IVB third stage had to burn nine seconds longer to put
Apollo 13 in orbit.

Apollo 13 training: (Miya Chapman)

There are some incredible ways astronauts are trained they are trained for everything
underwater, in planes, in centrifuges, in pools, in the ocean, and even planting the flag. Nasa has
a reduced gravity walking Simulator what they do is have them walk along a wall and let them
experience one-sixth of their weight. They practice landing in the water because the apollo
spacecraft were designed to return to Earth by landing in the ocean. They also have a jungle
survival training they get sent to the jungle and the desert for survival training because if the

spacecraft missed the ocean they would have to survive in the jungle in till they get saved. Those
are some of they was apollo 13 were trained.

Schedule of Apollo 13: ( Miguel Jaramillo)

The launch was at April 11 2:13 p.m. Earth orbit insert went on at 2:25:40 p.m.
Translunar injection went on at 4:54:47 p.m. LO2 tank anomaly April 13 10:07:53 p.m.
Trans-Earth injection April 14 9:40:39. Splashdown April 17 1:07:41 p.m. This is the
whole schedule of Apollo 13. Apollo 13 is the historical event that changed the way we
look at space. This made more Apollo missions possible. That is the most amazing thing
that happened in space that we could ever imagine.