The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
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Todd Zwillich
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Angelo Di Loreto
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Todd Zwillich
The story of John C. Houbolt, an unsung hero of Apollo 11 and the man who showed NASA how to put America on the moon.
Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon.
Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space.
Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable. But this junior engineer was irrepressible. He stood by his concept, fired off memos to executives, and argued that LOR was the only way to success.
For the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11, hear the untold story of the man who helped fulfill Kennedy’s challenge to reach the moon and begin exploring the final frontier.
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About the Creator and Performer
Todd Zwillich is a political journalist, radio host and author living in Washington, DC. He's spent much of his career covering politics from the front row on Capitol Hill, the White House and on the campaign trail. He covered politics and campaigns for The Takeaway, a public radio show, where he also served as host. Today, he can be heard regularly hosting NPR's 1A. Todd Zwillich has interviewed some of America's most well-known newsmakers, authors and historians, including Henry Kissinger, Salman Rushdie and Robert Caro. He's a lifelong space and science enthusiast.
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I stopped listening the moment I heard the narrator talk about the baseball game attended by President Kennedy, which featured Ernie Banks of the Chicago WHITE SOX. WHITE SOX.
That is an inexcusable fact error. Even the most cursory review of history quickly reveals that Ernie Banks was Mr. Cub. As a person who spent more than 30 years working in newsrooms, your reporting of the facts is the key to your credibility. When you screw up something this easy, how can I trust you on anything else.
The writer lost me with that glaring mistake,
Massive fact error crashes, burns this title
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An engineer with the "Right Stuff"
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A Wonderful Rendering of a Consequential Story
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who would have known, thanks John
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A must listen!
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Please Read This !
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Excellent for who is a English learner.
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Great story, poor engineering of sound levels
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wow
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Excellent!
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