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20 of 274 episodesSpace Rocket History #273 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 3
Lovell toggled the “master arm” switch to On and glanced around to see if everything else was in order. Guidance control was set to “Primary...
Space Rocket History #272 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 2
Aquarius, can you see any stars yet? Homepage with pictures
Space Rocket History #271 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 1
Kraft wanted to fire the descent engine now, get the ship back on its free-return slingshot course, and when it emerged from behind the moon...
Space Rocket History #270 – Apollo 13 – The News Breaks
Cronkite did not look good. He called Schirra over and thrust a sheet of wire-service copy at him. Schirra scanned the text hurriedly, and w...
Space Rocket History #269 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 4
EECOM, Sy Liebergot looked away from his monitor; the end, he knew, was at last here. Liebergot, through no fault of his own, was about to b...
Space Rocket History #268 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 3
As near as Lovell could tell, it would be a while before the ship’s endgame would play out. He had no way of calculating the leak rate in th...
Space Rocket History #267 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 2
By the time Flight Director Kranz heard Lovell’s report, of “Houston, we’ve had a problem. ” three controllers had reported related problems...
Space Rocket History #266 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 1
Swigert: I believe we’ve had a problem here! CapComm: This is Houston. Say again, please. Lovell: Houston, we’ve had a problem. Homepage wit...
Space Rocket History #265 – Apollo 13 – Translunar Coast – The Calm Before the Storm
As Lovell prepared for the thruster adjustments, Haise finished closing down the LEM and drifted through the tunnel back toward the command...
Space Rocket History #264 – Apollo 13 – Orbit, Translunar Injection, Docking, and Extraction
Milt Windier’s team at mission control quickly reviewed the status of the remaining four engines, ran the computations for the new engine cu...
Space Rocket History #263 – Apollo 13 – The Launch
During the Apollo era, North American-Downey built the Apollo Command & Service Module. After each completed spacecraft, Nasa conducted form...
Space Rocket History #262 – Apollo 13 – Commander Jim Lovell
Lovell completed four space flights and is one of only three men to travel to the Moon twice. Lovell accrued over 715 hours spent in space,...
Space Rocket History #261 – Apollo 13 – Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise
At thirty-six, Haise was the youngest member of the crew of Apollo 13, and his black hair and angular features made him seem younger still....
Space Rocket History #260 – Apollo 13 – Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert
John Leonard Swigert Jr. aka Jack Swigert was born on August 30, 1931 in Denver, Colorado to parents John Leonard Sr. and Virginia Swigert....
Space Rocket History #259 – Apollo 13 – Introduction – Part 2
Just before the mission began things started to go wrong. The weekend before launch Charlie Duke, the backup lunar module pilot, came down w...
Space Rocket History #258 – Apollo 13 – Introduction – Part 1
Targeted for touchdown on the third lunar landing was a place known as the Fra Mauro range, a stretch of rugged, Appalachian-type mounds 110...
Space Rocket History #257 – Apollo 12 – Return, Re-entry and Splashdown
Ten days ago, their Saturn V rocket had blasted Bean and his crew mates out of earth’s gravitational pull. Now their home planet was pulling...
Space Rocket History #256 – Apollo 12 – Leaving the Moon
Dick Gordon opened the tunnel to Intrepid, saw his companions floating in a dirty cloud of moon dust, and slammed the hatch closed. He calle...
Space Rocket History #255 – Apollo 12 – Lunar Liftoff
After a total of 31.6 hours on the moon, the Lunar Module ascent stage fired for about 7 minutes placing Intrepid into an orbit of 10 miles...