Space Rocket History Podcast

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Space Rocket History #191 – Apollo 10 – The Climb to Orbit

Posted January 4, 2017 • 00:35:56

At first stage cutoff the astronauts expected to encounter a single pulse of negative G and the crew would be thrown forward in their straps before...

An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #17 – The Mercury 7

Posted December 28, 2016 • 00:34:17

On April 1, 1959, Robert Gilruth, the head of the Space Task Group, Charles Donlan, Warren North, and Stanley White selected the first American astronauts....

Space Rocket History #190 – Apollo 10 – The Launch

Posted December 21, 2016 • 00:42:45

On May 18th 1969, a king, some congressmen, other distinguished guests, and a hundred thousand other watchers waited at scattered vantage points around...

An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #31 – Godspeed John Glenn – Mercury-Atlas 6 – Friendship 7 – Part 2

Posted December 16, 2016 • 00:25:07

Mercury Control was still undecided on the course of action to take with the heat shield problem. Some controllers thought the retrorocket pack should...

An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #30 – Godspeed John Glenn – Mercury-Atlas 6 – Friendship 7 – Part 1

Posted December 15, 2016 • 00:24:33

“I am in a big mass of some very small particles, they’re brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it! They round...