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2022.05.04 | Nothing So Hidden (Part 3) and the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 4 May 2022:

The third and final part of a series of special episodes celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission to the Descartes region of the lunar highlands in the words of Commander, John Young and Lunar Module Pilot, Charlie Duke, as recorded by The Space Show.

Nothing So Hidden: "There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it." ~ Rene Descartes

Also on tonight’s episode: 

  • Chiara Ferrari-Wong, a PhD candidate at the University of Hawaii, reports on anorthosite rocks recently discovered near the Apollo 16 landing site and describes the HyTI - Hyperspectral Thermal Imager
  • The story of the Apollo 16 command module Casper at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama 
  • The Space Show in conversation with Eric Jones, the founder and editor emeritus of the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, recounts the genesis of the Journal and how the interviews were conducted on which this unique online archive is based
  • John Saxon, Operations Supervisor at the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station gives an audio tour and description of the facility at Honeysuckle Creek outside Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory as it existed during the Apollo missions.  


    • Resources

    • Apollo Flight Journal: https://history.nasa.gov/afj
    • Apollo Lunar Surface Journal: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj
    • Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station tribute website: https://honeysucklecreek.net 
    • Tracking Apollo to the Moon by Hamish Lindsay: https://booko.com.au/works/7246322
    • Honeysuckle Creek: The story of Tom Reid, a little dish, and Neil Armstrong’s first step by Andrew Tink: https://booko.com.au/works/8691802
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