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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Apollo 13: The Triumph
Lately I have ben thinking about the Apollo missions. Apollo 13 specifically. Apollo 13 was originally meant as a moon landing. It was launched on April 11, 1970. It never landed on the moon due to an explosion in its oxygen tanks. The command module was basically crippled. Using the lunar module(LM) as a life boat, they used the pull of the moons gravity in a slingshot effect to pull them back to Earth. They met many other challenges. This could not have ben accomplished with out the effort of astronauts, scientists and engineers on the ground and the astronauts in the space capsule. Flight Commander James A. Lovell, Command Module Pilot John L. "Jack" Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred W. Haise safely returned to Earth April 17, 1970.
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When I saw this movie a couple of years ago, I was really struck by the scene where the astronauts are making their landing and the whole world is glued to the screen, waiting to find out if they will make it back alright. With that kind of an audience, anything would be worth doing well, wouldn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd it was pretty overwhelming to come to the realization that we have an audience just like that:
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses...let us run with endurance the race that is set before us." (Hebrews 12:1)
It is worth doing well!
ReplyDeleteThis is a really nice blog! I think we must be in the same year of school. All of your favorite books are mine to!
ReplyDeleteOf course its a nice blog! Its my blog! And yes, we are in the same year of school. Year 7, right?
DeleteI like your answer Shack!
DeleteI love your blog man, I didn't know about the Apollo 13. Keep up the good work, and the posting!!
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