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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In this episode of "LA Made: The Other Moonshot": The launch of Apollo 6. Nate and Charlie must choose how to respond when their work is undermined by superiors, leading to tense stand-offs. Meanwhile Shelby works on a project which will define his legacy — and our view of Earth. Workplace pay disparities come to light, while the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. reveals tensions that the engineers can no longer ignore.
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0:37.4 | One minute, 50 seconds and counting, all still going well at this time. |
0:41.8 | It's April 4th, 1968, and Nate LaVert is at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
0:48.5 | He's sitting at a console in a room full of engineers. |
0:51.6 | They're monitoring the launch of Apollo 6. |
0:56.8 | It's unmanned. The final test before the Apollo mission sends astronauts to space for the first time. Oh, my goodness. Everybody, |
1:05.5 | I tell you, everybody's kind of, kind of willy. They're on their toes. |
1:11.6 | One minute, 35 seconds. |
1:13.6 | Still all going well at this time. |
1:15.6 | Nate was one of many other engineers in the room waiting with anticipation, because they were on call. |
1:22.6 | These men built the rocket systems that propel the craft into space. |
1:32.7 | And should something go wrong, they were the only ones who knew how to fix it. |
1:35.7 | T-minus 20, still counting at this time. |
1:41.0 | Nate had spent the last five years designing the second-stage rockets gas distributor. |
1:46.6 | It was just one of the many contributions he made on the Apollo. And now, |
1:52.9 | he was finally about to see his work come to fruition. This was something concrete. That was his. |
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