Name: _____________________________________ APOLLO 13

QUESTIONS… (While viewing Apollo 13 DVD) 1. Who was the Flight Commander of the Apollo 13 mission?

2. What is everyone at Jim’s house watching at the opening of the movie?

3. In what year was the actual first moon landing?

4. What past NASA event makes Jim’s youngest son scared about him

going to the moon? 5. What is the first problem with the Apollo 13 mission

(the news they get during training)? 6. How does training go with Ken’s

back up (Jack)?

7. What did Marilyn Lovell lose right before the launch?

8. What was the name of the Apollo 13 command module?

9. What happens to the engines right after launch? 10. Who gets ill once

they are in space?

11. What did Flight Director Gene Kranz’s wife always give him before

every launch? 12. What happens to the national TV broadcast of the

mission? 13. What caused the master alarm to go off?

14. By shutting down the fuel cells, what will the astronauts not be able to

do while they are in space? 15. The radio signal is lost when the

spacecraft is where? 16. Who gets called to NASA headquarters to help

solve the power issue?

17.The astronauts were in danger of poisoning by:_____

18. The astronauts rebel against the NASA doctors by doing what? 19.

What is the stationary object in the window that the astronauts use to

hold course during the burn? 20. Why was the weight of the LEM way too

light on their way back to Earth? 21. What two famous astronauts talk to

Jim’s mom to try and calm her nerves? 22. What could have been damaged

in the explosion that would cause them to burn up in reentry? 23. How long

did Apollo 13 stay in space? 24. Who makes the call to Odyssey as it

reenters the atmosphere? 25. NASA refers to the Apollo 13 mission as

what?

26. What is the most famous line from the movie, Apollo 13?