Dec 02

Space Rocket History #353 – Apollo 16 – LMP Charlie Duke

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“Roger, Twank…Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot!,” Capcom Charlie Duke, Apollo 11 landing.

  • Midshipman Duke
  • Duke Salutes the Flag
  • Duke’s Family Portrait Left on the Moon
Nov 18

Space Rocket History #352 – Apollo 16 – Introduction, Crew Selection & CMP Ken Mattingly

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“cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am). Rene Descartes.

  • Descartes Landing Site
  • Apollo 16 Crew: Mattingly, Young, Duke
Nov 04

Space Rocket History #351 – Apollo 15 – First Deep Space EVA and Splashdown

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As the red smoke cleared, Al saw widening holes in one of their parachutes, collapsing it into a useless strip of cloth. “We’ve got a streamer on one,” Al reported.

  • Deep Space Walk Plan
  • Worden’s Space Walk
  • Safe on the Okinawa
Oct 21

Space Rocket History #350 – Apollo 15 – Lunar Liftoff, Rendezvous and Docking – Tang Ceremony

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On Hadley Plain, at 171:37 GET, right on schedule, Falcon’s engine lit, hurling the ascent stage upward in an impressive flurry of dust and debris, captured for the first time on camera and transmitted live to a world-wide audience.

  • Lunar Liftoff
  • Endeavour
  • Falcon Preparing to Dock