Posted on January 20, 2021
Duke was startled. Why was it shaking so hard? What in the world was happening? There had to be something wrong with this rocket. He didn’t recall any briefing to expect this violent vibration as they sat on the launch pad.
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Posted on February 3, 2021
It looked like they had a leak from one of the propellant tanks on the Lunar Module. If so, that meant abort!
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Posted on February 17, 2021
“Unlike the roller-coaster ride of Earth orbit, we are entering a slow-motion domain where time and distance seem to have more meaning than speed.” Mike Collins
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Mar 3
Space Rocket History #359 – Apollo 16 – Lunar Orbit & No Go for Landing – Big Reveal & Tang Ceremony
Posted on March 3, 2021
In the event of a secondary control system failure in the engine, the mission rules stated the entire landing phase of the mission would have to be terminated.
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Posted on March 16, 2021
Due to the change in their flight plan caused by the six-hour delay, the crew had to reprogram a great deal of their onboard data, and this had to be done before they had LOS.
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Posted on March 31, 2021
“There you are, our mysterious and unknown Descartes Highlands Plains. Apollo 16 is gonna change your image.” John Young
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Posted on June 9, 2021
It was the only time in their whole lunar stay that Charlie had a real moment of panic and thought he had killed himself.
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Posted on June 23, 2021
The LM eventually crashed due to lunar gravity anomalies. Since Houston didn’t know exactly where it landed, it was not useful to calibrate seismic experiments on the surface.
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Posted on July 21, 2021
On re-entry Casper hit the atmosphere at an altitude of about 400,000 feet above the earth and at a velocity of nearly 25,000 miles per hour.
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