Space Rocket History Podcast

Recent Episodes

Space Rocket History An Encore Presentation of Episode #35 – Textbook Spaceflight – Mercury-Atlas 8, Sigmac 7 with Wally Schirra

Posted April 20, 2016 • 00:35:06

After Scott Carpenter’s science heavy Mercury-Atlas 7 flight, Nasa’s next mission would concentrate on the technical and engineering aspects of...

Space Rocket History #157 – Apollo 7-The Flight Part 2

Posted April 13, 2016 • 00:40:05

CAPCOM Number 1 (Deke Slayton): Okay. I think you ought to clearly understand there is absolutely no experience at all with landing without the helmet...

Space Rocket History #156 – Apollo 7-The Flight Part 1

Posted April 6, 2016 • 00:39:13

SCHIRRA: You’ve added two burns to this flight schedule, and you’ve added a urine water dump; and we have a new vehicle up here, and I can tell...

Space Rocket History #155 – Apollo 7 – Assembly, Testing, Training, and Launch

Posted March 30, 2016 • 00:32:45

Command Service Module-101 started through the manufacturing cycle early in 1966. By July, it had been formed, wired, fitted with subsystems, and made...

Space Rocket History #154 – Apollo 7 – The Crew

Posted March 23, 2016 • 00:38:52

Had it not been for the fact that Eisele damaged his shoulder during a zero-G training flight aboard a KC-135 aircraft just before Christmas 1965, he...