1. What is the problem in this scene?
2. What are the engineers’ options for solving the problem?
3. Does this scene show innovation and innovative behavior? If so, in what form?

This film dramatically portrays the Apollo 13 mission to the moon that almost ended in disaster. Only innovative problem solving and decision making amid massive ambiguity saved the crew. Almost any scene dramatically makes this point. Flight Director Gene Kranz wrote a book describing the mission and the actions that prevented disaster.
A zero gravity simulator, a KC-135 four-engine jet aircraft (NASA’s “Vomit Comet”), helped create the film’s realistic weightless scenes. These scenes required 600 parabolic loops over 10 days of filming.
This scene is a composite built from portions of the “Carbon Dioxide Problem” sequence, which occurs a little after the midway point of the film, and parts of the “With Every Breath . . .” sequence, which appears about seven minutes later. The scene’s first part follows the nearly complete shutdown of the Apollo 13 module to save battery power. Mission Control has detected rising carbon dioxide levels in the module, which could kill the astronauts if NASA engineers on the ground cannot solve the problem. The film continues with the Apollo 13 crew building a carbon dioxide filter designed by the engineers.