059 Moon Landing 50th Anniversary Series part 2: The Apollo 13 EECOM Flight Controller | Sy Liebergot
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Remember the character Clint Howard (Ron Howard's brother) played in the Apollo 13 movie with Tom Hanks? Well he was portraying my guest today, Sy Liebergot!
Sy was the lead EECOM flight controller for Apollo missions 12–15 actually working in mission control! He was critical in the safe return of the Apollo 13 crew. Sy actually made the call to not land on the moon and instead focus on returning the crew safely back to earth.
In this episode, Sy shares details the excitement and anxiety of the Apollo missions! He tells me straight up the good, the bad, and doesn't hold anything back!
This episode is a real insider look to what NASA was like in the 60's you definitely don't want to miss!
Check out Sy's book, Apollo EECOM: Journey of a Lifetime on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2Xw6A7U
And visit his website at http://www.apolloeecom.com
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| 0:00.0 | Three, two, one, zero, |
| 0:03.8 | no. |
| 0:04.8 | Tranquality base here. |
| 0:06.8 | The Eagle has landed. |
| 0:07.8 | You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm at the foot of the ladder. |
| 0:12.0 | That's one small step for man. |
| 0:15.0 | One giant leap for man. |
| 0:17.0 | Beautiful. |
| 0:18.0 | Beautiful. |
| 0:19.0 | You. |
| 0:20.0 | Magnificent flight on here welcome to curiosityness |
| 0:24.3 | and part two of the |
| 0:28.5 | episode 59 and part |
| 0:31.0 | two of the moon landing |
| 0:33.3 | 50th anniversary series I'm doing |
| 0:35.7 | and I am Travis DeRose and this is part two of the moon |
| 0:41.9 | landing 50th anniversary and I got on Cy Liebergat. He was actually there for the Apollo |
| 0:47.5 | missions in mission control working as the lead e-com flight controller specifically for the Apollo missions 12 through 15, but he did a whole |
| 0:57.8 | bunch of stuff. He worked on a lot of the other Apollo missions. And if you've ever seen |
| 1:03.6 | Apollo 13, the movie with Tom Hanks, he was portrayed by Clint Howard in that movie, Ron Howard's brother. So he got to work |
| 1:13.2 | with Ron Howard and Clint Howard and, you know, help them make that movie and tell his story. So |
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