The history of early space exploration.
Episodes
Wednesday May 08, 2019
Space Rocket History #131 – Apollo 1: Astronauts – Part 1- Grissom & White
Wednesday May 08, 2019
Wednesday May 08, 2019
“So the reason I took those symbols was that I think this was the most important thing I had going for me, and I felt that while I couldn’t take one for every religion in the country, I could take the three I was most familiar with.” Ed. White
Wednesday May 08, 2019
Space Rocket History #130 – Apollo 1: Preparation
Wednesday May 08, 2019
Wednesday May 08, 2019
While flight-preparation crews were having problems, Grissom, White, and Chaffee were finding bottlenecks in training activities. The chief problem was keeping the Apollo mission simulator current with changes being made in spacecraft 012.
Wednesday May 08, 2019
Wednesday May 08, 2019
As Procedures Officer, Kranz was put in charge of integrating Mercury Control with the Launch Control Team at Cape Canaveral, Florida, writing the “Go/NoGo” procedures that allowed missions to continue as planned or be aborted, along with serving as a sort of switchboard operator using teletype between the control center at Cape Canaveral and the agency’s fourteen tracking stations and two tracking ships located across the globe.
Wednesday May 08, 2019
Space Rocket History #128 – Apollo Mission Control: Christopher Columbus Kraft – Part 2
Wednesday May 08, 2019
Wednesday May 08, 2019
At the beginning of the Apollo program, Kraft retired as a flight director to concentrate on management and mission planning. In 1972, he became director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, following the path of his mentor Robert Gilruth.
Monday May 06, 2019
Monday May 06, 2019
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. was Born on February 28, 1924 in a town that no longer exist, Phoebus, Virginia. The town has now been engulfed by Hampton, Virginia. Kraft was named after his father, Christopher Columbus Kraft, who was born in New York City in 1892 near Columbus Circle at 8th ave. and 59th street.