Manned mission to land on the moon. Next, a documentary telling the story of the mission, beginning with a Lightning Strike to the launch vehicle 26 36 seconds after liftoff. 1967, surveyor three landed on the moon, in a crater of oceanas of the ocean of storms. With surveyors electronic eye, we viewed the lunar surface. With its mechanical arm, we dug a small, shallow trench in the lunar soil. 1969, 31ovember 14, months after surveyors landing, men were leaving the earth to land on the ocean of storms. Charles pete conrad. Richard gordon. Alan bean. The crew of apollo 12. The second manned landing on the face of the moon. Their target, the site of surveyor 3. Ignition sequence start. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 0. All engines running. Commence liftoff. Apollo 12 lifted off in the driving rain. Pete conrad reports that the program is in. Tower clear. Going. Baby is really 36 seconds later, lightning struck the spacecraft. I dont know what happened here. We had everything in the world dropout. Yo
Months after surveyors landing, men were leaving the earth to land on the ocean of storms. Charles pete conrad, richard crew ofalan dean, the apollo 12, the second manned landing on the face of the moon. Their target, the site of surveyor three. 4, 3, 2,1, 0. Apollo 12 lifted off in the driving rain. In. He program is clear. This babys really going. 36 seconds later, lightning struck the spacecraft. Dont know what happened here. Showing your hit by lightning. Disconnecting. A and b out. We had a couple cardiac arrest down here, too. Tell you one thing looking good. They space and on earth, checked systems to make sure the lightning caused no damage that would endanger the mission. The time for commitment neared, to send apollo 12 to the moon. Translator injection, trans lunar injection, tli. Apollo houston, the good word is you are ready for tli. We are ready. We didnt expect anything else. We didnt train for anything else. You Better Believe it. Burn looks good. Off, apollones cut 12
In your book, you talk about one of the episodes on one of the lunar landings where the camera didnt work and there was virtually sort of a coverup because they didnt want to show that. I wonder if you could go into that. One of the most exciting things, of course, about walking on the moon, being on the moon for the guys and everybody watching back at home, that was what was so incredible about the Apollo Program. Even for someone like me who is one of the wives once asked me when i went to interview her, where were you when we landed on the moon . How old were you . I said jo, i think i was moon dust. I wasnt born yet. Whenever you become fascinated with this subject, you can go there with the guys. All you have to do is look at the youtube footage, television footage they filmed. The incident you were just talking about was apollo 12, the Second Mission to the moon. Alan bean had this Television Cameras a burgling to use to chronicle their journey and he by accident turned it into t
Basically grew out of the Space Program. Prosthetic limbs. There are a whole range of medical inventions, devices that have come as a direct result of having made vibrant Space Program. People say, well, they are very expensive, the cost of those spinoffs has now been worth it. I guess it is a value judgment. It depends how you measure the value to you get for the los. Offer me Airline Safety is worth a great deal. I am sure for you it is as well, peter. Host what kind of money do we spend annually on the International Space station . Is there a return on that investment . Guest well, squeeze been a decreasing amount of our Gross Domestic Product on a. It is not like it was in the 60s when we were in the space race, if you will, where we spent up to of 4 percent of gdp. Now we are well below 1 . And actually, that has decreased even further. We have no Delivery System for u. S. Astronauts right now. We are using the russian spacecraft to send our people. It will be several years before
Marge said this is ridiculous. You are going into space. I cant go to the cape. What is going on out there . She tells him that hed better drive her out there and he hides her under some blankets in the back of his car and they go past military guards and she gets out there and pops up her hat and it is sort of a lonely beach jetties and scrub brush and what not. The whole country is dying for a cigarette. This is the kind of spunk and irreverence that these women brought to this brave new world of being an astronaut wife. You have seven women, all different walks of life, allen sheppards wife louise was very highbred. I think of her as the sabrina and audrey have removed character. She drew up as the gardeners daughter at longwould gardens and stayed on the east coast so when she met Jackie Kennedy she almost treated jackie like she was an old friend, they were two private school girls almost, getting to know each other. You have this band forming, these women are in the public eye an