Charles Duke (continued)
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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A special Socrates in the City with former astronaut Charles Duke (continued)
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| 0:25.3 | Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show. |
| 0:31.3 | Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, |
| 0:34.0 | and good at checking a cesareth for synonyms? |
| 0:36.6 | Well, then you've come to the right place. |
| 0:38.9 | Here now is the handsome, attractive, |
| 0:49.8 | striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking, Eric Mat, Texas. So you're in this thing, |
| 0:55.8 | and you have to do a couple of orbits to make your approach, and you almost had to abort that. |
| 1:00.0 | Mattingly had a problem. |
| 1:17.3 | One hour before we were to land on the moon, we were on the backside of the moon, and he had to change his orbit from a 60 mile on the backside to 60 miles on the front side and it required a major engine ignition. Well, there was something wrong with the engine. It was shaking the |
| 1:24.9 | spacecraft to pieces. So he reported that to John and John said, don't burn. And when |
| 1:31.2 | he said that, that means we weren't going to get the land on the next hour. And I don't |
| 1:37.7 | know whether your heart can sink to the bottom of your boots and zero gravity, but ours |
| 1:41.6 | dead. And oh, God, we come this, you know, |
| 1:45.0 | there's our landing site, eight miles down there, |
| 1:48.0 | and they're about ready to tell us to come home. |
| 1:51.0 | So mission control came up to speed, |
| 1:54.0 | and they started working, the problem, |
| 1:58.0 | and they came up with an answer on the second revolution around and |
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