Space Rocket History #359 – Apollo 16 – Lunar Orbit & No Go for Landing – Big Reveal & Tang Ceremony
Space Rocket History Podcast
Michael Annis
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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In the event of a secondary control system failure in the engine, the mission rules stated the entire landing phase of the mission would have to be terminated.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, listeners. If you are enjoying this podcast without commercial interruption and are |
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| 0:10.8 | spacerockethistory.com, and click on the orange donate button or the Patreon link. Thanks. |
| 0:19.9 | We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. |
| 0:24.7 | Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. |
| 0:28.1 | Godspeed, John Glenn. |
| 0:30.4 | Roger, zero G, and I feel fine. |
| 0:33.3 | Okay, I'm out. |
| 0:35.9 | How does it feel for the United States to be the new record holder? |
| 0:40.1 | At last, huh? |
| 0:41.8 | In that baby lights, there's no doubt about it. |
| 0:44.6 | Lift-off. We have a lift-off. 32 minutes past the hour. |
| 0:49.2 | Lift-off on Apollo 11. |
| 0:51.8 | flipping Tanguality base here. |
| 0:54.7 | The Eagle has landed. |
| 0:56.6 | That's one small step for man. |
| 1:00.2 | One giant leap for manned. |
| 1:09.1 | Hello and welcome. |
| 1:16.8 | This is Michael Annis, and you're listening to episode number 359 of the Space Rocket History podcast. |
| 1:24.8 | And now Apollo 16, lunar orbit and a no-go for landing. |
| 1:32.8 | With Apollo 16 now in the vicinity of the moon, the crew began to prepare for the LOI, or Lunar Orbit Insertion, burn. |
| 1:39.2 | But before this could happen, they had to expose some experiments, which Ken Maddingly would be performing |
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