Big Picture Science: Nailing the Moon Landing - 01 July 2019

Neil, Buzz, and Michael made it look effortless, but the moon landing was neither easy nor inevitable. Soon after President Kennedy publicly stated the goal of sending Americans to the moon, NASA confessed that the chances of success were only about 50/50. But on July 20, 1969, despite enormous difficulties, astronauts stepped onto the lunar regolith.

In this special anniversary episode, we go behind the iconic phrases and familiar photos to consider the errors, mishaps, and the Plan B contingencies that dogged the project, as well as hear of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who made Apollo 11 possible.

Guests:

Charles Fishman https://twitter.com/cfishman - author of “One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501106295/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1501106295&linkId=99b4d17c594670985ba5d47ebf147b38

Matt Hayes https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-hayes-15386a32/ - President and CEO of the Museum of Flight, Seattle

Geoff Nunn https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffnunn – Adjunct curator for Space History at the Museum of Flight.

David Whitehouse http://davidwhitehouse.com/ – Journalist, broadcaster, and author of “Apollo 11: The Inside Story” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1785785125/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1785785125&linkId=cf138a8fe118febfd99ab96a3dcd0f5b

Dee O’Hara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_O%27Hara – NASA’s first aerospace nurse and flight nurse for the Apollo mission

James Allen Joki https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/james-allen-joki-md – EMU Flight Controller, Apollo Mission Control, Houston

Ted Huetter https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-huetter-6a5b8911/ – Museum of Flight public relations manager

Descripción en español http://bigpicturescience.org/es/episodes/exitoso-alunizaje

Download audio: http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/nailing-the-moon-landing

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