Apollo: Untold Stories of the Voyage to the Moon with Nancy Atkinson

This week is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13.

John Michael Godier is joined by writer, space, and science reporter from Universe Today Nancy Atkinson to discuss her book on the Apollo program.
What issues did NASA face getting Astronauts to the moon?
How close did the Apollo program come to shutting down after Apollo 13?

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From horse and cart at the start of the 20th century, to having a man on the moon by 1969 was incredible technological development, I wish we still had this today but it was a remarkable time.

[Michael_Dominic]

John, your gift for asking deeply insightful questions never fails to amaze me.

[TheExoplanetsChannel]

Congrats for surpassing *100, 000 subscribers!*

[davidmiller]

great guest, this was really interesting. thank you, team, event horizon.

[Shotsmoky]

John Michael Godier, Nancy Atkinson and a nice glass of Cab on a Friday night. It just doesn't get any better.

[TechNed]

What really got me about that rope memory was the sheer sequential nature of assembling it. When we say "assembling", I'm unaware of but assume they used a cross-assembler on a mainframe or hand-assembled but either way, the physical process of assembling the bits meant that when a bug or constant needed emending or other program change was required, the only option available was to unfurl or otherwise pick the weave apart up to that point and start rethreading.

[erictaylor]

When I was a kid my grandparents had a neighbor was an engineer who worked on Apollo. He told me some fantastic stories. Unfortunately he died long before the book was written.

[ifluro]

My favourite Moon doco(s) is on youtube. No narration, just sounds and actual radio comms. The Apollo experience: Apollo 17. Uploaded by Spark.

[codywanks]

9:20 "hired all these women who were adept at following instructions"
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[Nekogrl]

Wonderful interview! Thanks John and Nancy!

[reallyryan_]

This was so relaxing to listen to these videos are so chill I always look forward to the end bits haha ❤️

[amangogna]

This was an amazing achievement. Great video !

[TheWeatherbuff]

Another great one, JMG! Thank you. I don't want to totally forget about the problems in the world today, but this was an excellent and very unique break. Stay safe. :)

[colonelgraff]

The last time I was this early Apollo 13 was just stirring their fuel tanks

[TheAngryAstronomer]

Wow, this is the earliest I've been to anything in at least 3 weeks.

The story of Norman taking it upon himself to organize such an effective, efficient, and beautiful way of getting their history to the Arthur

[austinstueland]

It's hard to believe we didn't lose a man on the moon. I mean people die on the way to the store everyday and these dudes flew to a foreign sphere

[lordzed]

Dont know much about space. But i gotta say that THIS show is obe if things i wait for every week since i found Yours youtube. Thanks

[algorn]

50 years ago Men and women in the U.S. with graph paper and computers with the power of a calculator landed humans on the moon. Today we have the internet, smart phones that can connect to any information source on the planet and quantum computers yet we can not even get a person to low earth orbit. What a bunch of self loathing egotistical professional complainers this generation has become. The asperations that the youth have today is abysmal compared to the 40s 50s and 60s. I used to think the more access to information would spurn on an explosion of innovation, But alas the Digital Domain has become a trap for our children. I am beginning to think the greatest Fermi Paradox filter is the inconvenience of reality.
Thank you John for Bringing on Nancy Atkinson and helping me reminisce I enjoy your programs greatly.