Posted on 04/11/2020 7:06:47 AM PDT by TFG
Fantastic. Congratulations to your son!
Thanks the Ron Howard movie from 1994, it is probably the other flught, aside from Apollo 11, that most Americans are familiar with.
Apollo 7, 9, Skylab 2, 3, 4, & Apollo-Soyuz were all earth orbital flights. All the rest went to the moon.
I never understood why they didn’t skip the number 13 in numbering the Apollo missions. They could have been spared the near-tragedy that befell the Apollo 13 mission.
There are interesting 50th anniversary interviews with Fred Haise and Jim Lovell on YouTube.
Great interview with Capt. Lovell by Houston radio host Michael Berry.
Highly recommended.
One of the interesting factoids from the mission is that the famous picture of the Command Module with hole in the side was taken by one of our spy satellites that we turned around to get the picture.
And that was mid 60’s technology.
That’s interesting! I was looking for the famous “service module” shot while doing the Apollo in Real Time and wondered why it wasn’t there.
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