In Conversation with Astronaut Al Worden
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🗓️ 22 November 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Al Worden was an American astronaut and engineer who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dance Notes History. This is a very special podcast. One of my favorite |
| 0:04.6 | podcasts I've ever, ever broadcast. It's a repeat of a podcast I recorded back a couple of years ago |
| 0:11.2 | now when the legendary, the legendary Alfred Warden was in the UK. Now very, very sadly he died on the |
| 0:19.2 | 18th of March this year in 2020. He was a fighter pilot, he was a test pilot and he was also a NASA |
| 0:28.4 | pilot. He flew to the moon with the Apollo missions, he was on Apollo 15 and he told me what that |
| 0:34.5 | was like. It was one of those experiences that I will never forget. In fact, I will take it to the |
| 0:39.0 | grave and I've told my kids and everybody else I know all about it. And the best thing about |
| 0:43.5 | having a podcast is you guys can all listen to it too. He flew to the moon on Apollo 15 with David |
| 0:49.2 | Scott and James Irwin. The two of them went then went in the lunar module and landed on the |
| 0:53.9 | moon's surface. Our warden spent three days alone in the command module. In the process of that, |
| 1:01.3 | he became the individual who's traveled further than any other human being in the history of mankind, |
| 1:06.0 | a distinction that he still holds. He took lots of extraordinary photographs of the moon. |
| 1:11.9 | And then on the way, this is the most amazing. On the way back, he performed a spacewalk, |
| 1:16.4 | but not where these spacewalks that you see in the International Space Station that is in orbit |
| 1:21.2 | around the earth. He performed a deep space spacewalk. So he could see the whole of the moon |
| 1:26.6 | and the earth at the same time as he did his spacewalking deep space. It is these spacewalks to this day |
| 1:33.2 | that has taken place furthest from the earth. As NASA and SpaceX have combined this week to send |
| 1:39.3 | astronauts to the space interspace together for the first time in a while, I thought it would be |
| 1:43.2 | nice to rerun this podcast with the brilliant our warden. You can watch the documentary I made with |
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