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Space Rocket History Podcast

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Episodes

Total: 220

Space Rocket History #274 – Apollo 13 – Minimizing Power – Part 1
2018/10/18

Electricity was in short supply. A fully functioning, up-and running LEM required about 55 amps of c

Space Rocket History #273 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 3
2018/10/10

Lovell toggled the “master arm” switch to On and glanced around to see if everything else was in ord

Space Rocket History #272 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 2
2018/10/3

Aquarius, can you see any stars yet? The post Space Rocket History #272 – Apollo 13 – Free Return –

Space Rocket History #271 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 1
2018/9/27

Kraft wanted to fire the descent engine now, get the ship back on its free-return slingshot course,

An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #183 – Apollo 9 – Lunar Module Maneuvers Part 4
2018/9/20

When Scott tried to release the lunar module, he did not hold the button long enough so the lander g

Space Rocket History #270 – Apollo 13 – The News Breaks
2018/9/13

Cronkite did not look good. He called Schirra over and thrust a sheet of wire-service copy at him. S

Space Rocket History #269 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 4
2018/9/5

EECOM, Sy Liebergot looked away from his monitor; the end, he knew, was at last here. Liebergot, thr

Space Rocket History #268 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 3
2018/8/29

As near as Lovell could tell, it would be a while before the ship’s endgame would play out. He had n

Space Rocket History #267 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 2
2018/8/23

By the time Flight Director Kranz heard Lovell’s report, of “Houston, we’ve had a problem. ” three c

Space Rocket History #266 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 1
2018/8/16

Swigert: I believe we’ve had a problem here! CapComm: This is Houston. Say again, please. Lovell: Ho

Space Rocket History #265 – Apollo 13 – Translunar Coast – The Calm Before the Storm
2018/8/9

As Lovell prepared for the thruster adjustments, Haise finished closing down the LEM and drifted thr

Space Rocket History #264 – Apollo 13 – Orbit, Translunar Injection, Docking, and Extraction
2018/7/31

Milt Windier’s team at mission control quickly reviewed the status of the remaining four engines, ra

Space Rocket History #263 – Apollo 13 – The Launch
2018/7/25

During the Apollo era, North American-Downey built the Apollo Command & Service Module. After each c

An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #169 – Apollo 8 – Christmas 1968
2018/7/18

Bill Anders: “We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew o

Space Rocket History #262 – Apollo 13 – Commander Jim Lovell
2018/7/11

Lovell completed four space flights and is one of only three men to travel to the Moon twice. Lovell

Space Rocket History #261 – Apollo 13 – Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise
2018/7/5

At thirty-six, Haise was the youngest member of the crew of Apollo 13, and his black hair and angula

Space Rocket History #260 – Apollo 13 – Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert
2018/6/27

John Leonard Swigert Jr. aka Jack Swigert was born on August 30, 1931 in Denver, Colorado to parents

Space Rocket History #259 – Apollo 13 – Introduction – Part 2
2018/6/20

Just before the mission began things started to go wrong. The weekend before launch Charlie Duke, th

Space Rocket History #258 – Apollo 13 – Introduction – Part 1
2018/6/13

Targeted for touchdown on the third lunar landing was a place known as the Fra Mauro range, a stretc

Space Rocket History #257 – Apollo 12 – Return, Re-entry and Splashdown
2018/6/6

Ten days ago, their Saturn V rocket had blasted Bean and his crew mates out of earth’s gravitational