Space Rocket History #308 – Apollo 14 – Transposition, Docking & Extraction
Space Rocket History Podcast
Michael Annis
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🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Docking was a delicate maneuver, since both ships were traveling at nearly five miles per second, but the docking mechanism itself was one of the simplest on the entire spacecraft, and the docking procedure had been perfected on previous Apollo flights, … Continue reading
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| 0:00.0 | We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, |
| 0:08.0 | but because they are hard. |
| 0:10.0 | Godspeed, John Glenn. |
| 0:12.0 | Roger, zero G, and I feel fine. |
| 0:15.0 | Okay, I'm out. |
| 0:17.0 | How does it feel for the United States to be the new record holder? |
| 0:21.6 | At last, huh? |
| 0:22.6 | In that baby lights, there's no doubt about it. |
| 0:26.6 | Lift-off. |
| 0:27.6 | We have a lift-off. |
| 0:28.6 | 32 minutes past the hour. |
| 0:30.6 | Lift-off in Apollo 11. |
| 0:32.6 | Listing, uh, Tranquility base here. |
| 0:35.6 | The Eagle has landed. |
| 0:40.4 | That's one small step for man. |
| 0:44.4 | One giant leap for mankind. |
| 0:57.8 | Hello and welcome. This is Michael Annis, and you're listening to Episode 308 of the Space Rocket History Podcast. |
| 1:05.2 | And now, Apollo 14, transposition, docking, and extraction. |
| 1:19.5 | Probe. This is Bruce Morning in Houston, and this is the docking probe, a test model, not quite as shiny as the one aboard Apollo 14, but the same machine which has caused so many anxious thoughts and tests here. |
| 1:26.5 | With me is Bob White, a subsystem manager with NASA whose domain includes the docking probe. Bob, how should it work? |
| 1:30.3 | Well, Bruce, the probe being mounted in the command module is flown into the drogue, which is mounted into the limb tunnel. |
| 1:34.3 | The idea being we have a funnel effect here |
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