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This week we will take a look at the crew of Apollo 11 and how each came to be selected as a member of the most ambitious mission undertaken in human history - the first attempt to land people on the moon.

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There is a lot going on in today episode from eulogizing two members of Apollo 7 (Mercury 7 veteran Wall Schirra and Apollo rookie Donn Eisele), and the final three missions before the American moonshot (Apollo 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 10). Not only were these missions vital to prepare for Apollo 11, but they also set a few records. After Apollo 10 landed there was no dobut in NASA's mind that the next mission would literally shoot for the moon.

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Thanks to an investigation that looked to fix the problems of the Apollo Program versus sweeping them under the rug, NASA was able to get the resources needed to fix the issues and gain the support of Congress and the American public once more. After an 18-month hiatus to completely rebuild the Apollo spacecraft, astronauts successfully returned to space as NASA contined to make progress towards a moon landing.

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It should come as no surprise that the Apollo 1 shook up how most everyone felt about the Apollo Program – the government, the media, and the general population – but the group that has the most to lose, NASA, and particularly its astronauts, never wavered in their desire to honor the memories of their fallen colleagues by continuing the mission and getting to the moon. Of course, that doesn’t mean that in the months following the fire there wasn’t a lot of frustration and concern on their part; but they worked to make sure the negligence shown during Apollo 1 wasn’t repeated and that their colleagues were honored and would never be forgotten.

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This week we talk about Apollo 1, and how the the program planned to take astronauts to the moon, took three lives instead and  lead some to begin talking about the cancellation of manned spaceflight in the United States all together.

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Two weeks ago I had the chance to attend a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery and I just had to share the experience with you, so please join me in honoring the life and service of retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Gene Hill.

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This week, we wrap up Project Gemini with the final four Gemini missions and mention how those final missions answered all of the remaining questions about space travel to the moon and skills that would be needed for lunar exploration. But the Gemini missions couldn't provide information about the physical composition of the surface of the moon and to know if the surface could support a human presence, let alone a landing craft, NASA needed to send probes to the moon which turned out to be just as difficult and problematic as that sounds.

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This week we take a look at NASA astronaut class 3 and then briefly overview the other 20 astronaut classes NASA has selected since then, but the meat of the episode is the nearly disasterous Gemini 8 misison that a clear thinking and quick acting Neil Armstrong brought back from the brink and the disaster that killed the Gemini 9 main crew and ultimatly put Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11 misison, making him the second man to walk on the moon.

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On this week's episode, we see Mercury 7 Astronaut Gordo Cooper's career come to an end so we eulogize him while talking about the final 3 Gemini missions of 1965, the most active year to date for NASA manned space missions.

 Additionally, we talk about a very important aspect of military culture, unit patches. Starting with Gemini 5, the members of every crewed NASA mission has designed a patch to wear while in space and to commemorate the mission, and after the Gemini 5 crew made theirs, patches were retroactivly designed for Gemini 3 and 4 as well. I have posted the patches of Geminis 3-7 on the website.

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This week we being to see the US space program come into its own and really begin surpassing its Soviet rival. With the Gemini 3 mission, the US proves that it can manually maneuver a capsule in space and with Gemini 4, it shows that like Soviet cosmonauts, US astronauts can also spacewalk - and the US spacewalk was twice as long as the Soviet's.

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