061 Moon Landing 50th Anniversary Series part 4: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control | Rick Houston, author of Go, Flight!
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Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The folks who worked at mission control are often clouded behind the astronauts they worked with. But the reality is that none of NASA's storied accomplishments would have been possible without these people. Join Rick Houston and I in this episode as he shares exactly what it was like to be in mission control!
Rick served as an associate producer and consultant on the documentary film "Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo". That project was inspired by Rick's most recent book, "Go, Flight! The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control". More recently, Rick served as a technical advisor and extra on the set of the film, First Man, on legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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| 0:00.0 | Three, two, one, zero, |
| 0:03.8 | no. |
| 0:04.8 | Tranquility 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 sight on here welcome to curiosityness episode 61 the fourth and final part of the moon landing 50th anniversary |
| 0:36.4 | series that I'm doing and by by I'm, I mean me, |
| 0:40.6 | and I am Travis DeRose, the host of the show that you're listening to. And on this episode, |
| 0:47.6 | for the fourth part of the Moonlanding series, I have on Rick Houston. And Rick is the author of GoFlight, the Unsung Heroes of Mission |
| 0:56.8 | Control. And it's just a great author who's written a ton of books about NASA and also |
| 1:03.9 | NASCAR, for that matter. But we're talking about NASA on this part. And he just explains what it was |
| 1:10.3 | really like to be in mission control and gives |
| 1:13.8 | it, you know, kind of shines a light on the people who worked at mission control because |
| 1:18.1 | sometimes their work can be clouded by the astronauts and they're not as public. So it's really |
| 1:23.5 | fun to hear Rick talk about this because he studied it so in depth. And Rick also serves |
| 1:30.7 | as the technical advisor, and he was an extra on the set for the film First Man, which came out |
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