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Apollo 13

INTRODUCTION
Apollo 13, the 1995 motion picture directed by Ron Howard, is the true story of Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert, a team of astronauts reassigned to a space flight with diminished preparation time. This routine mission to the moon suddenly becomes a survival mission to safely return home to Earth. The film details the circumstances affecting two separate but cohesive teams. The purpose of this case analysis is to identify the critical events, explain the underlying causes of why these events happened, and draw logical conclusions about the teams¡¯ performances as related to effective teamwork and leadership.
MOVIE ANALYSIS (WHAT)
The first critical event of the film gives the Apollo 13 astronauts their mission. Alan Shepherd, the original Apollo 13 commander, and his crew are scrubbed from the mission. Lovell, Haise and Mattingly, originally slated to fly the Apollo 14 mission, are suddenly moved up to the Apollo 13 mission giving them only six months to......


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