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Jul 20

50th Anniversary Special – An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #221 – Apollo 11 – Lunar Landing – Part 3

Posted on July 20, 2019

“Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

Tagged:Aldrin, Apollo 11, Armstrong, Bales, Kranz, Moon Landing

Jul 19

50th Anniversary Special – An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #220 – Apollo 11 – Lunar Landing – Part 2

Posted on July 19, 2019

Suddenly, Buzz and Neil heard the high-pitched sound of the Master Alarm. On the computer display the “PROG” light glowed amber. “Program alarm,” Armstrong radioed. Quickly, Aldrin queried the computer for the alarm code, and “1202” flashed on the di...

Tagged:2279, Aldrin, Armstrong, Collins, Kranz

Jul 18

50th Anniversary Special – An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #219 – Apollo 11 – Lunar Landing – Part 1

Posted on July 18, 2019

The machine-like performance of flight crew and ground controllers continued. Each participant was in perfect harmony with the other, moving to a cadence dictated by the laws of physics and the clock.

Tagged:Aldrin, Apollo 11, Armstrong, Collins, Moon

Jul 10

Space Rocket History #308 – Apollo 14 – Transposition, Docking & Extraction

Posted on July 10, 2019

Docking was a delicate maneuver, since both ships were traveling at nearly five miles per second, but the docking mechanism itself was one of the simplest on the entire spacecraft, and the docking procedure had been perfected on previous Apollo fligh...

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Tagged:Capture Latches, Csm, Docking Probe, Lm, Mitchell, Stu Roosa

Jul 3

Space Rocket History #307 – Apollo 14 – The Climb to Orbit & TLI

Posted on July 3, 2019

“The approaching dusk and the damp mistiness left by the now-departed rainstorm only enhanced the spectacular sight and the sound of the launch. Tentacles of flame erupted on either side of the bottom of the Saturn V, which seemed to sit in its own c...

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Tagged:Mitchell, Roosa, S Ii, Shepard, Si C, Siv B

Jun 26

Space Rocket History #306 – Apollo 14 – The Launch

Posted on June 26, 2019

The first launch window for Apollo 14 began at 15:23, Eastern Standard Time, 31 January 1971, and lasted almost four hours. Stu RoosaApollo 14, Liftoff

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Tagged:Apollo 14, Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Louise Shepard, Mitchell, Roosa

Jun 19

Space Rocket History #305 – Apollo 14 – Pre-launch

Posted on June 19, 2019

On November 9, 1970, the Apollo 14/Saturn V assembly, as tall as a 36-story building, rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building on the proportionally huge crawler transporter. TrainingRollout – Mitchell, Shepard, RoosaInsigna

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Tagged:Gene Cernan, Mitchell, Roosa, Shepard

Jun 12

Space Rocket History #304 – Apollo 14 – Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. – Part 4

Posted on June 12, 2019

Even with all the problems, Shepard piloted the Lunar Module Antares to the most accurate landing of the entire Apollo program. Shepard became the fifth and, at the age of 47, the oldest man to walk on the Moon, and the only one of the Mercury Seven ...

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P8-Shepard’s memorial stone in Derry, New Hampshire; his ashes were scattered at sea

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Tagged:Alan Shepard, Apollo, Deke Slayton, Louise Shepard

Jun 5

Space Rocket History #303 – Apollo 14 – Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. – Part 3

Posted on June 5, 2019

After the Mercury-Atlas 10 mission was canceled, Shepard was designated as the Commander of the first crewed Gemini mission, with Thomas P. Stafford chosen as his pilot. Shepard at his Mission Control ConsoleShepard & GrissomShepard as Chief of the ...

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Tagged:Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Gus Grissom, Stu Roosa, Tom Stafford

May 29

Space Rocket History #302 – Apollo 14 – Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. – Part 2

Posted on May 29, 2019

On January 19, 1961, Robert R. Gilruth, the director of NASA’s Space Task Group, informed the seven astronauts that Shepard had been chosen for the first American crewed mission into space. Shepard in Freedom 7Recovery of Shepard JFK presents Distin...

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P2-Marine Corps HUS-1 helicopter from HMR-262 retrieves Freedom 7 from the Atlantic

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Tagged:Cooper, Freedom 7, Glenn, Shepard, Von Braun

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