<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1FAgqP_0zdwXOJc00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1FAgqP_0zdwXOJc00" width="1200" height="600" >LONE GROVE, Oklahoma (KXII) - When Apollo 13 blasted off on April 11, 1970, it was supposed to be the third mission to put humans on the moon.But --- that didn’t happen.The spacecraft had an onboard explosion just days into its mission.At that point, the objective switched from land on the moon --- to make it home alive.Using the moon’s gravity, the spacecraft was able to slingshot safely back to Earth.One of the three astronauts on board was Fred Haise, a University of Oklahoma graduate and a former Oklahoma Air National Guardsman.On Wednesday, he embarked on a virtual mission, and landed in an auditorium full of students at Lone Grove Middle School.“I think it’s very important for students to have interactive learning, hands on, it just makes it real to them,” Assistant Principal Chrisiti Garner said. “I’m also a former science teacher so I was geeking out as much as everybody else was.” Haise told the kids his story, and then the kids got to ask questions like ‘what did Earth look like from space,’ and ‘how did you feel when you knew you were going to make it home.’“It was a nerve wracking since he’s famous worldwide,” one student said, “but it was cool.”“It was really good, I got to know how things worked and how it was from his perspective instead of mine,” another student told me.And it’s all thanks to Mrs. Deanna James, a 7th grade science teacher who loves space and wanted to share that wonder with her students.“Space ignites curiosity, and that’s what we want to ignite in our students is for them to be curious and to wonder and to look through problems in a different lens,” she said. “Space is the perfect place to do that.”But, after everything they learned, there were still no takers for NASA’s next mission.“I have a fear of heights, I couldn’t go that far in space,” one student said.Though, there are other ways to help out.“If I were to do anything like that, I would work on something that’s gonna go to space,” another student said.And that’s exactly the message Mrs. James wanted her students to understand --- the sky is the limit, literally.“Today was phenomenal,” she said. “I really wanted the focus to be on the kids and for them to realize that they are special and they deserve the entire world.” </div></body>

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LONE GROVE, Oklahoma (KXII) - When Apollo 13 blasted off on April 11, 1970, it was supposed to be the third mission to put humans on the moon. But --- that didn’t happen. The spacecraft had an onboard explosion just days into its mission. At that point, the objective...

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