The Space Show

2022.04.27 | Nothing So Hidden: The Voyage of Apollo 16 (Part 2)


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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 27 April 2022:

Part 2 of a three-part series of special episodes celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission in the words of Commander, John Young and Lunar Module Pilot, Charlie Duke, as recorded by The Space Show.

In tonight’s episode, the Apollo 16 astronauts take their lunar roving vehicle for a spin in the first "Grand Prix" held on the Moon; discuss potassium-induced astronaut flatulence; talk with John Saxon, the Operations Supervisor at the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station outside Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory (the only Australian ever to speak directly to an astronaut on the Moon), and place their beer orders; take a walk in deep space and lose, find, lose again and then recapture a missing wedding ring, on their way home from the Moon. 


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The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia