Apollo 13: The Manned Space Mission

Apollo 13, was a failed space mission that occurred in April of 1970. The manned mission was the seventh in the Apollo space program and it was intended to be the third program to land on the moon. The astronauts that took flight in the mission include Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise. Twenty-five years later, in 1995, a dramatized film of the event was released to the American public. Apollo 13, is a historical film, intended for the audience to understand what occurred during that particular area of history. The film begins by speaking about Apollo 1, the first manned mission of the Apollo space program which was intended to be a lunar landing. The film explains what went wrong and how they solved these problems by showing the moon landing of the Apollo 11 space program on national television. By explaining and showing these events, the audience learned what lead to the Apollo 13 space mission and the prior attempts before the mission took place. The film also explores how NASA prepares the astronauts by having them perform multiple simulations how the attended flight. This helps the audience understand what it takes to become an astronaut and all the steps it requires before the …show more content…
Apollo 13, is an accurate film, as the director, Ron Howard, devoted a lot of time and energy into the making of this film. This accuracy can be seen by the exterior and interior of the ship the astronauts flew in, the mission control in Houston and the space setting. Exact replicas were built to allow accuracy. Many of the dramatic scenes in the film happened in real life, for example, when the carbon dioxide levels were building up in the lunar module where the astronauts were staying. The engineers at NASA had to build devices that would allow the levels of carbon dioxide levels to go down. This film is better than other resources because of the amount of time and understanding that had to go into making this