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Apollo 13 ELEMENTARY 2

Answers to Book activities Chapters 6 - 10

1 a broke b didn’t move c left the
1 Open answers. ship and it looked like smoke
2 a astronaut, pilot d went crazy!
b engine, rocket, simulator e around and around in space
c Earth, moon, space because there was no power.
3 a rocket b airplane c meet f broke in the command module.
d ground 2 a It’s dangerous because the
e sick f astronauts g spaceship controllers don’t know about that
4–6 Open answers. engine. Will it start?
7 The astronauts can’t live without b It will take three or four days and
oxygen. The spaceship can’t fly they can’t live in the lunar module
without power. There will be no for four days.
power without oxygen. c Those engines are for short trips.
8 a Jack b Jim c Kranz d Jack They are not built for this. (This is
9–11 Open answers. the only possible answer.)
12 a In the simulator, they move power 3 Not enough power is their biggest
from the lunar module to the problem because without power,
command module. they cannot return to Earth.
b Because the nose of the
Chapters 11–18
command module is at the back.
c Open answers. 1 a Yes b No c No d No e No f
13–16 Open answers. Yes
g No h No i Yes j No
2 a They take it from the lunar
module.
Answers to Factsheet activities
b They don’t have any moon rocks
and they need some heavy things
Activities before reading the book
in the command module.
1 a Chapter 1 b Chapters 2, 3, 4
c The lunar module didn’t take them
c Chapter 5 d Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9
to the moon, but it helped them
e Chapter 18
come back to Earth. It is like a
2 a space b astronauts c command
friend and they have to say
module d oxygen e controllers f
goodbye to it.
radio
d They need the parachutes when
Activities while reading the book they go into the Pacific Ocean.
Chapters 1 - 5 e Jeffrey learns that his father’s life
is more important than Moon
1 a 13 b 11 c 12 d 11 e 14 f 14
rocks. Jim learns that it is more
2 1b 2g 3i 4c 5h 6f 7j 8d 9a
important to be on Earth than on
10 e
the Moon.
3 a Astronaut Alan Shepard didn’t go
on Apollo 13 because he had a
Activities after reading the book
problem with his ear.
b Ken Mattingly didn’t go on Apollo 1–2 Open answers
13 because he never had the
measles. The doctor wanted him
to stay on Earth because of the
measles problem at Mission
Control.
c Engine five turned off early. It was
the first problem after they left
Earth, but they didn’t know it was
important.
d He was away at school and
couldn’t go to Mission Control on
April 13, 1970 with his mother,
brother and sisters.
e The astronauts do not really cook
in space. They use a gun to put
water into dry food.

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