Space Rocket History Podcast

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Space Rocket History an Encore Presentation of Episode #27 – Mercury-Redstone 4 – Liberty Bell 7 with Gus Grissom

Posted September 24, 2015 • 00:46:23

Mercury-Redstone 4 was the fourth mission in the Mercury-Redstone series and the second U.S. manned suborbital spaceflight. The mission was essentially...

Space Rocket History #130 – Apollo 1: Preparation

Posted September 17, 2015 • 00:36:20

While flight-preparation crews were having problems, Grissom, White, and Chaffee were finding bottlenecks in training activities. The chief problem...

Space Rocket History #129 – Apollo Mission Control: An Introduction to Eugene Frances Kranz

Posted September 10, 2015 • 00:45:28

As Procedures Officer, Kranz was put in charge of integrating Mercury Control with the Launch Control Team at Cape Canaveral, Florida, writing the "Go/NoGo"...

Space Rocket History #128 – Apollo Mission Control: Christopher Columbus Kraft – Part 2

Posted September 3, 2015 • 00:43:41

At the beginning of the Apollo program, Kraft retired as a flight director to concentrate on management and mission planning. In 1972, he became director...

Space Rocket History #127 – Apollo Mission Control: Christopher Columbus Kraft – Part 1

Posted August 27, 2015 • 00:38:40

Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. was Born on February 28, 1924 in a town that no longer exist, Phoebus, Virginia. The town has now been engulfed by Hampton,...