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Space Rocket History Podcast

Space Rocket History #321 – Apollo 14 – Splashdown

Space Rocket History Podcast

Michael Annis

History, Technology

4.9769 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Gradually, as Mitchell worked and glanced at the bright crescent, he was filled with a quiet euphoria, great tranquillity, and an overpowering sense of understanding. It was as if he had suddenly begun to hear a new language, one being … 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, Tranquality base here.

0:35.6

The Eagle has landed. That's one small step for man one giant leap for man

0:48.2

hello and welcome this is michael annis and you're listening to Episode 321 of the Space Rocket History podcast.

0:58.0

And now, Apollo 14, Splashdown.

1:03.4

The golf world went bananas today when it heard Alan Shepard was using a six iron on the moon.

1:08.8

Golf magazine quickly made Shepard an honorary member of its All-American team.

1:12.6

United Press International countered by assigning one of its sports reporters to handle the story.

1:17.6

The Associated Press then dispatched a reporter to interview Shepard's golf pro at Houston's River Oak Country Club.

1:24.6

And before the day was out, the world had been informed about Shepard's

1:28.3

handicap, his back swing, what Arnold Palmer thought, what Sam McDowell thought, what Gino

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