Over the past few days you may have been wondering, "Why is Luke not paying attention with his headphones in?" Well, I was actually watching a masterpiece of a movie - Apollo 13.
This movie was very interesting. Everyone always knows Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for walking on the moon but what the men of Apollo 13 did was arguably more impressive. It's fascinating how an oxygen tank can literally explode and people predicted they had 15 minutes left but they stretch that into 50 plus hours. It's also pretty amazing that the astronauts build an oxygen filtering device out of things they had laying around on the ship. I just can't imagine being in their situation. The stress, the freezing temperatures, the fact that one wrong move and you're dead. It's just crazy. I gotta say, my favorite part is towards the end of the movie when the astronauts re-enter the atmosphere. People predicted that the heat shield could possibly not hold up but against all odds, withstood thousands of degrees of heat. You know the directors did a good job when even though you know the outcome, you were still nervous for the astronauts. Also, the movie said something crazy along the lines of "the O2 tanks were faulty years before the launch when they were building the rocket." That's just unbelievable to me that no one caught the problem. This movie was so interesting that I actually wanted another 20 minute video on it after I finished the movie. There's something about being in space that so crazy. I thought this movie was awesome 8/10.
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