Apollo 13: The Successful Failure
The movie I chose was Apollo 13, it is about the “successful failure” of the Apollo 13 mission. Jim Lovell, the captain of the Apollo 13 spacecraft, is the character I picked to write about. Lovell is faced with many life or death decisions and is forced to choose between a life-long dream and a life with his family. Jim Lovell is a man of values. He has a strong sense of self-identity, self-esteem, integrity, and confidence. But most importantly Lovell is able to prioritize his values so that he is able to identify what is most important in tough situations and is able to bring out the best in everyone around him to get the job done, and done right. When faced with a tough situation such as whose fault it is for the escalade of problems that occur because of the stirring of the oxygen tanks, Lovell says that when it comes down to the bottom line, he stirred the tanks. But no matter how grim the situation looks, because Lovell has such high values for himself, his family, and his crew, he will let nothing stand between what he knows himself and others are capable of doing. Lovell always does what is best for himself and those around him, he did not compromise the Apollo 13 mission because Ken Mattingly might have contrac . . .
In order to be assigned to a certain mission a certain number of hours must be held in training, so that the crew and support staff has the experience necessary to complete the mission. And with the confidence he has in himself, Lovell knows that deep down he will get his men home, because that is his responsibility. Lovell is able to manage his stress well because he keeps his goals in mind - getting his crew and himself back safely to their families. The choices that Lovell made in space on those long weary days while aboard Apollo 13 show us that no matter what happens true character will always prevail and either break you or make you stronger. Even though he is thousands of miles away from Earth, he is able to stay relatively calm and he stays in control of his crew. He was not created in someone’s mind and he does not disappear the moment you walk out of the movie theater or away from the television. The choices that Lovell made impacted not only himself, but also the men in his crew, his family, his crew’s family, the members of NASA Mission Control in Houston, the United States, and the world. The values he holds help him to make tough decisions and live well, and make others want to follow him. When the spacecraft orbited the moon, it was a very emotional time for Lovell, because his dream was so close to him, but Lovell knew that this dream was not worth losing his family over. The distress in Lovell’s life at this moment is the fact that he might not make it back to Earth and see his family ever again. Lovell knows that he is just as capable as Neil Armstrong is, but because Armstrong was next in line to go into space he got to land on the moon. He is able to manage his stress by using the problem-focused coping strategy, which is coping by actually seeking to change the situation that is causing distress. Lovell has a social relationship with the men he works with, but also a working relationship. Lovell is able to turn this distress into eustress by keeping calm and using cognitive restructuring to rethink the situation. Lovell had always planned his life so that one day he would achieve his goal of setting foot on the moon.
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