Space Rocket History #322 – Apollo 14 – Recovery & Conclusion
Space Rocket History Podcast
Michael Annis
4.9 • 769 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Alan Shepard’s wife Louise was elated after watching on TV as Shepard boarded a Navy ship bound for Houston, where he would be safe behind the glass windows of the post-flight quarantine room.
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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 number 32 of the Space Rocket History Podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | And now, Apollo 14, recovery and conclusion. |
| 1:06.0 | The men of Apollo 14 came back down to Earth this afternoon. They've covered more than a million miles and they brought home a load of rocks that may be 4 billion years old. |
| 1:15.6 | The splashdown was right on target in the Pacific Recovery Area. |
| 1:19.6 | The three flyers of Apollo 14 are back and safe after a highly successful flight. |
| 1:26.6 | They brought back about a hundred pounds of moon, the biggest hall so far, |
| 1:31.3 | for geologists and others to pour over and learn more about the origins and structure of the moon and perhaps of the Earth. |
| 1:39.3 | They landed this afternoon in the South Pacific, due east of Australia, on time and on target, |
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