Charles Duke (continued)
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
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A special Socrates in the City with former astronaut Charles Duke (continued)
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| 0:47.4 | So you're in this thing and you have to do a couple of orbits to make your approach and you |
| 0:53.4 | almost had to abort that. Matingly had a problem. One hour before we were to land on the moon, |
| 1:02.5 | we were on the backside of the moon and he had to change his orbit from a 60 mile on the backside |
| 1:13.0 | to 60 miles on the front side and it required a major engine ignition. Well, there was |
| 1:21.0 | something wrong with the engine. It was shaking the spacecraft to pieces. So he reported |
| 1:28.8 | out to John and John said, don't burn. And when he said that, that mean we weren't going to get the |
| 1:33.4 | land on the next hour. And I don't know whether your heart can sink to the bottom of your boots |
| 1:40.1 | and zero gravity, but ours did. And oh, God, we've come this, you know, there's our landing site, |
| 1:46.4 | eight miles down there and they about ready to us come home. So mission control came up to speed |
| 1:54.0 | and they started working the problem and they came up with an answer on the second revolution |
| 2:03.1 | around and the next revolution, the third orbit, we were going, we were cleared to land. Manly |
| 2:10.6 | made the burn. It all went well. And so now we're cleared to land. And so we started our decent. |
| 2:17.8 | And it was the last opportunity we had to land because the moon was slowly rotating underneath us. |
| 2:26.0 | And we had to fly a cross range to get back to our landing site. And that was the last |
| 2:31.4 | rep that we could do that with with the fuel we had on board. So mission control saved the day. |
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