Apollo 13 mission Flashcards
What word is used to describe when they say, “‘the space is in real good shape as far aw we are concerned, we’re bored to tears down here’ it was the last time anyone would mention boredom for a long time”
foreshadowing
which paragraphs tells us the setting? What’s the setting?
Paragraphs 1-2, the setting is on a spacecraft, Apollo 13
what can you infer from paragraph 4 :
“the message came in the form of a sharp bang and vibration. Jack Swigert saw a warning light that accompanied the bang, and said, ‘Houston, we’ve had a problem here.’Lovell came on the and told the ground that it was a main B bus undervolt. The time was 2108 hours on April 13”
On april 13, at 9:08 (military hours), they told ground control that things were starting to go back according to jack. They are aware of the problem because of the noises that were being made.
what can you infer when it say “warning lights indicated the loss of two apollo 13’s three fuel cells”
problems were going up for the mission
what can you infer:
“‘we are venting something out into the- into space. he reported to Houston’ […] it was oxygen gas escaping at a high rate from the second, and last, oxygen tank.”
They are identifying the problem
what can you infer from pargraph 7? (look up this part I don’t feel like typing now)
there’s an immediate response, and the oxygen net is starting to leak from the inside = more problems happening
what does Psi mean
a unit of pressure
what can yo infer from paragraph 8
that it took a lot of time to figure out what happened to cause the leak, didn’t find out what happened right away
what can you infer from pargarph 9
they’re panning on what to do next
which pargraph shoes how resourceful ground control is
paragraph 10, “completely new procedures had to be written and tested in the simulator before being passed up to the crew.”
what does paragraph 11 mostly show us?
how they had to use their resources to make their newer plan succesful for the mission
what does pargraph 12 mostly takl about
facing more challenges
what did Apollo 13 break the record for and why
the amount of wait loss from the crew, because they had to stock up on supplies so they had to improvise by conserving things.
The LM was designed only to support two for two days, in paragraph 14 it states how they had to change those circumstances, what does this show us
they’re up to the challenge to their new plan to work
what can you infer from the last sentence of pargarph 14
their good at being prepared and it shows how resouceful ground cotrol is
