Space Rocket History #311 – Apollo 14 – Lunar Landing – Part 1

Space Rocket History Podcast

Michael Annis

History, Technology

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

While checking the lander’s guidance software, during a final practice run for the landing, engineers in mission control detected that the computer was receiving an errant signal from the abort pushbutton.

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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, Tranquality base here.
0:35.6	The Eagle has landed.
0:40.4	That's one small step for man.
0:44.3	One giant leap for mankind.
0:52.0	Hello and welcome.
0:57.6	This is Michael Annis, and you're listening to episode 311 of the Space Rocket History podcast.
1:01.9	And now, Apollo 14, Lunar Landing.
1:12.7	After separation from the command module, Shepard and Mitchell would spend about four hours preparing for descent and studying the lunar landscape,
1:18.0	particularly where they flew over the Frow Maro sector,
1:24.9	eyeballing craters with names like cone, weird, doublet, and triplet.
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