This week in Language Arts class we have been watching as you can probably guessed from the title, Apollo Thirteen. It was about the story of the second trip to go walk on the moon and how it all went wrong. During the mission they had to complete the routine procedure of checking the pressure gauge and stirring the oxygen tanks. A faulty part in the tanks caused the tanks to explode, causing the entire side panel to be blown off into space and start leaking oxygen. After a huge gamble that saved the crew’s lives, they still needed to reenter. The ground crew was worried when the system did not show a visual of the spacecraft for over four minutes.They managed to get home after help from Ken Mattingly and everyone at mission and land in the South Pacific Ocean where they were picked up by the USS Iwo Jima aircraft carrier.