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?