Apollo xiii 2014

Apollo XIII

Continuing the quest into the unknown…

Do It NOW

Your thoughts on the video clip….

- questions?

- surprises?

- Main ideas?

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?

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

Space Exploration

The history behind the The history behind the

Saturn RocketSaturn Rocket

Launch!

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”

The Early Rockets

The V1 Rocket

The V2 Rocket

The Rocket

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

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't Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.”do plenty well when he gets there.”

Canadian Connection

1. CF 105 Jet Fighter Interceptor: “The Avro Arrow”

2. Kamloops aerospace engineer James Chamberlain

Avro Arrow: Canada’s Broken Dream

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.

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

Canadian Connection

C.S.M. or Command Service Module

L.M. or Landing Module

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. KennedySept. 12, 1962

Source: www.thespacerace.com

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: 1 st 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

MoonArmstrong

Aldrin

U.S.A.

Soviet Union (Russia)

MAN ON THE MOON 1969

Apollo XI Liftoff

Neil Armstrong

MAN ON THE MOON 1969

Plaque

Apollo XIII Crew

James Lovell Jack Swigert Fred Haise

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.

“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

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 or Do you believe in premonitions or omens?omens?

Last Thoughts….

1313

Last Thoughts….

An unlucky number?

13

Lift-off time: 1:13pm

(or 13:13 military time)

Entering the Moon’s gravity:

April 13, 1970

Our Own Voyage of Discovery

Apollo 13 (1995)Starring:Tom HanksKevin BaconGary SiniseBill PaxtonEd HarrisKathleen QuinlanDirected by:Ron HowardAcademy Awards:Best Film EditingBest Sound