Episodes Tagged with "Edgar Mitchell"

Nov 16

Space Rocket History #185 – Apollo 10 – Preparations

Posted on November 16, 2016

Although the contractors had shipped excellent spacecrafts, preparations at Kennedy did not go quickly from the assembly building to the launch pad. Testing was delayed several days in order to stay out of the way of Apollo 9 pre-flight activities. A...

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Tagged:Apollo 12, Apollo 15, Apollo 9, Chris Kraft, Cm, Command Module, Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donn Eisele, Edgar Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, George Low, George Mueller, Gordon Cooper, John Young, Lem, Lm, Lunar Module, Nasa, S Ivb, Sps, Thomas Stafford, Thruster, Walter Cronkite

Nov 23

Space Rocket History #186 – Apollo 10 – Commander Thomas P. Stafford

Posted on November 23, 2016

Thomas P. Stafford was the first member of his Naval Academy Class of 1952 to pin on the first, second, and third stars of a General Officer. He flew six rendezvous in space; logged 507 hours and 43 minutes in space flight and wore the Air Force comm...

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Tagged:Apollo 12, Apollo 15, Apollo 9, Chris Kraft, Cm, Command Module, Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donn Eisele, Edgar Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, George Low, George Mueller, Gordon Cooper, Jim Lovell, John Glen, John Young, Lem, Lm, Lunar Module, Nasa, Neil Armstrong, S Ivb, Sps, Thomas Stafford, Thruster, Wally Schirra, Walter Cronkite

Dec 7

Space Rocket History #188 – Apollo 10 – Command Module Pilot John Young

Posted on December 7, 2016

John Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut thus far. Over the course of 42 years of active NASA service he made six space flights and is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini,...

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Tagged:Apollo 12, Apollo 15, Apollo 9, Chris Kraft, Cm, Command Module, Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donn Eisele, Edgar Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, George Low, George Mueller, Gordon Cooper, Jim Lovell, John Glen, John Young, Lem, Lm, Lunar Module, Nasa, Neil Armstrong, S Ivb, Sps, Thomas Stafford, Thruster, Wally Schirra, Walter Cronkite

Dec 21

Space Rocket History #190 – Apollo 10 – The Launch

Posted on December 21, 2016

On May 18th 1969, a king, some congressmen, other distinguished guests, and a hundred thousand other watchers waited at scattered vantage points around the Cape area. At 49 minutes past noon, Rocco Petrone’s launch team sent Apollo 10 on its way to t...

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Tagged:Apollo 12, Apollo 15, Apollo 9, Authur C Clarke, Chris Kraft, Cm, Command Module, Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donn Eisele, Edgar Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, George Low, George Mueller, Gordon Cooper, Jack King, Jim Lovell, John Glen, John Young, Lem, Lm, Lunar Module, Nasa, Neil Armstrong, Paul Haney, S Ivb, Sps, Thomas Stafford, Thruster, Wally Schirra, Walter Cronkite

Jan 18

Space Rocket History #193 – Apollo 10 – Coasting to the Moon & Loss of Signal

Posted on January 18, 2017

Stafford, Cernan, and Young were the first Apollo astronauts to be free from illness during the mission, although Cernan experienced a slight vestibular disturbance. Like all their colleagues who had flown before, once they unbuckled from the couches...

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Tagged:Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donn Eisele, Edgar Mitchell, Gordon Cooper, Jack King

Jan 25

Space Rocket History #194 – Apollo 10 – Acquisition of Signal & Lunar Orbit

Posted on January 25, 2017

The six-minute retrograde maneuver seemed interminable, just as it had to Borman’s crew on Apollo 8, but the engine kept firing and the Apollo 10 crew’s confidence in it kept growing. When the engine finally shut down and they were sure that it had d...

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Selected Apollo lunar landing sites. The Apollo 2-10 crew photographed Sites 1, 2, and 3

Tagged:Chris Kraft, Crump, Deke Slayton, Edgar Mitchell

Feb 8

Space Rocket History #196 – Apollo 10 – Lunar Module Out of Control

Posted on February 8, 2017

The abort system had two basic control modes, “attitude hold” and “automatic.” In automatic, the computer would take over the guidance and start looking for the command module, which was certainly not what the crew intended to do at that moment. Whil...

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Tagged:Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donn Eisele, Edgar Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, Paul Haney

Apr 24

Space Rocket History #298 – Apollo 14 – Crew Selection

Posted on April 24, 2019

There were some people who wondered why America’s first man in space Alan Shepard, at age forty-seven, having acquired fame, wealth, and status as an American hero, would risk his life to go to the moon. Deke SlaytonGeorge MuellerApollo 14 crew

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Tagged:Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Edgar Mitchell, George Mueller, Stuart Roosa

May 15

Space Rocket History #300 – Apollo 14 – Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell – Tang Ceremony

Posted on May 15, 2019

In the Astronaut Office, it was his intellectual bent that set him apart from some of the other pilots, along with a certain hard edge.

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Tagged:Alan Shepard, Apollo 14, Edgar Mitchell, Mit, Stu Roosa

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