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Jan 6

Space Rocket History #355 – Apollo 16 – The Launch

Posted on January 6, 2021

T-90 seconds and all Charlie Duke could think about was let’s go! There was no fear, no reluctance, no second thoughts. He was consumed with the desire to hear the words Lift-off. He felt this was his one and only chance. Suiting UpLeaving for the ...

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Tagged:Apollo 16, Charlie Duke, Deke Slayton, Guenter Wendt, John Young, Mattingly

Dec 16

Space Rocket History #354 – Apollo 16 – CMDR John W. Young

Posted on December 16, 2020

John Watts Young was an astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He flew on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini...

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Tagged:Apollo 10, Apollo 16, Gemini 10, Gemini 3, John Young, Sts 1, Sts 9

Dec 2

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

Posted on December 2, 2020

“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 DukeDuke Salutes the FlagDuke’s Family Portrait Left on the M...

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Tagged:Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Apollo 16, Charlie Duke, John Young, Mattingly

Nov 18

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

Posted on November 18, 2020

“cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am). Rene Descartes. Descartes Landing SiteApollo 16 Crew: Mattingly, Young, Duke

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Tagged:Apollo 16, Charlie Duke, John Young, Mattingly

Nov 4

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

Posted on November 4, 2020

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 PlanWorden’s Space WalkSafe on the Okinawa

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Tagged:Al Worden, Apollo 15, Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, Okinawa

Oct 21

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

Posted on October 21, 2020

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 LiftoffEnd...

Tagged:Al Worden, Apollo 15, Dave Scott, Jim Irwin

Oct 7

Space Rocket History #349 – Apollo 15 – Meanwhile on Endeavour

Posted on October 7, 2020

After being cooped up together so closely with his fellow astronauts inside Endeavor, Worden enjoyed stretching out for his solo flight. Now he really got to fly.

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Tagged:Al Worden, Apollo 15, Dave Scott, Farouk El Baz, Jim Irwin

Sep 23

Space Rocket History #348 – Apollo 15 – Traverse 3

Posted on September 23, 2020

“We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth; Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies And the cool, green hills of Earth.” Robert A. Heinlein Hadley RilleHammer & FeatherAstronaut Memorial

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Tagged:Al Worden, Apollo 15, Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, Lee Silver, Lunar Rover, Mt Hadley, Spur Crater

Sep 9

Space Rocket History #347 – Apollo 15 – Traverse 2-Part 2 – The Genesis Rock

Posted on September 9, 2020

Both men realized what they had discovered. The rock was almost entirely plagioclase. This was surely a chunk of anorthosite, a piece of the primordial crust, the Genesis Rock. Genesis RockGlass Found at Spur CraterIrwin Digging a Trench

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Tagged:Al Worden, Apollo 15, Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, Lee Silver, Lunar Rover, Mt Hadley, Spur Crater

Aug 26

Space Rocket History #346 – Apollo 15 – Traverse 2-Part 1

Posted on August 26, 2020

Suddenly, Scott called out that the Rover was beginning to slide down the hill. As the back wheels came off the ground, Scott quickly got back on to hold the rover down. Dave on RoverLM in the DistanceBoulder at Station 6A

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Tagged:Al Worden, Apollo 15, Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, Lee Silver, Lunar Rover, Mt Hadley, Spur Crater

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