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Why Two Moonships Were Better Than One

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Engineer John Houbolt pushed for a smaller ship to land on the lunar surface while the command module stayed in orbit around the moon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:19.6

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0:28.4

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0:33.6

This is Scientific American 60-second science.

0:36.7

I'm Christine Herman.

0:37.6

We've been tranquility days here. The Ingo has landed.

0:44.6

July 20th marks 50 years since human beings first landed on the moon. That momentous day in

0:50.7

1969 made astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin household names.

0:56.1

But years before that, a lesser-known figure was on a mission to make that first moon landing

1:01.4

possible.

1:02.6

His name was John Hobalt, the son of Dutch immigrants.

1:06.0

Hobalt grew up on a farm in Joliet, Illinois.

1:08.5

He studied engineering at the University of Illinois and eventually

1:11.3

worked his way to NASA. It was there in the early 60s that he put his career on the line

1:16.9

to champion what was at the time an unpopular idea, but would ultimately be critical to getting

1:22.7

Apollo 11 to the moon and safely back. John faced a mixture of indifference, at times abuse, and at times

1:30.6

ridicule that he never forgot until things started to change and engineers started to realize

1:36.5

his data might be right. Todd's Willick, author of the new audible original spoken word book

1:42.1

about Holbalt's life. It's called the man who knew the way

1:45.0

to the moon. So what was Holbalt's unpopular idea? He championed what's called lunar orbit rendezvous.

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