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Space Rocket History #370 – Apollo 17 – Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Schmitt played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers...
Space Rocket History #369 – Apollo 17 – Mankind’s Last Giant Leap
Apollo 17 would break several crewed spaceflight records: 1) longest moon mission duration: 12 days 13 hours 52 minutes (just a day and a third shorter...
Space Rocket History #368 – Apollo 16 – Splashdown
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.
Space Rocket History #367 – Apollo 16 – Rendezvous, Docking, Ascent Stage Dump, Ken’s EVA and Lord of the Wedding Rings
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...
Space Rocket History #366 – Apollo 16 – Moonwalk 3, Lunar Olympics & Lift-off From the Moon
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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