Book Review 9

Book Review 9

『Apollo 13』

“ Apollo 13” is the very famous movie. One of the most famous actors in U.S.A , Tom Hanks plays as a astronaut. And this is a true story. These are interested me.
Jim Lovell is a astronaut. He got a chance to go on Apollo 13. Jim wasn’t the only astronaut on Apollo 13. The other men were Fred Haise and Ken Mattingly.
But Ken had to give up to go on Apollo 13 .It was because he didn’t have immunity to the measles. So he couldn’t go .After long hard hours in the simulator ,they were ready.
April 11,1970 Apollo 13 was launched. April 13 21:07, suddenly, there was a loud noise and Jim flew into a wall. They had a big problem. Something went wrong. Oxygen tank broke !Oxygen was leaving the ship. There ‘s a little oxygen in tank. The astronauts will die without oxygen and power. Of course they had to give up going to the Moon. Suddenly, Jim had an idea. They will leave the command module and go into the lunar module which has power and oxygen. They didn’t have much time. They had to work fast. Even the lunar module doesn’t have enough power.
Apollo needs power to get back to the Earth. So they turned off almost all power to save. They had to fly their ship without the computer. But they did it !
Though there were many problems , three astronauts managed to come back to the Earth with their and Houston’s efforts.
This is a very moving real story.