How Does Apollo 13 Show Leadership

The movie I have chosen to write about, is Apollo 13. This is a great film that demonstrates true leadership and teamwork when times are tough. Apollo 13 is about a team of astronauts preparing for their mission before they go out to space. They begin training for their departure months in advance. Constant flight simulations to the moon, bonding activities, and other trainings that bring the team closer together. Until, the team was getting their checkups before flight, and one of the astronauts failed his medical test. Which causes the team to lose their pilot for the mission. With this curveball, the captain of the ship has to decide if he wants to post pone his mission, or take a chance with a new pilot. So the captain makes his final decision, and decides to bring in a new pilot when the mission is a few weeks away. With a few weeks of retraining the team is ready to make their way to the moon. During takeoff the ship has a malfunction and will not have enough fuel to make it home. So the can only look at their goal and go home

They spend months of their time preparing for this adventure, accurate step by step calculations are buy in place, and there constantly repeating each step until it is engraved into their minds. In reality, these missions can take months or even years to plan out. They go through the head management team, and carefully break down the goal to see if it’s realistic. Once determined that the goal is capable of happening with the data to support, the begin the planning process. First they establish a team that is capable of reaching the necessary goal, then the team is trained and become professionals with their job description, where they are finally put on the spacecraft and sent to complete their task. Of courses there is a lot more planning that is involved, but this is a great example of planning that takes place in this