Space Rocket History Podcast
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Space Rocket History Podcast
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Space Rocket History #465 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Epilogue
Due to the deterioration of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, no follow-on missions to ASTP took place. A ba...
Space Rocket History #464 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Coming Home
Celebrations erupted in Mission Control, with broad smiles and cigar smoke marking the successful conclusion. But, while Mission control was celebrati...
Space Rocket History #463 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Joint Operations
“I had thoughts I couldn’t express at the time. It felt like we weren’t just opening a hatch in space, but opening the door to a new era on Earth.” T...
Space Rocket History #462 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Handshake
On July 17, 1975, orbiting in space high above the French city of Metz, the American and Russian commanders shook hands. Their conversation, a mix of...
Space Rocket History #461 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Rendezvous
CapCom Truly radioed at 10:46 with the go-ahead: “I’ve got two messages for you: Moscow is go for docking; Houston is go for docking. It’s up to you g...
Space Rocket History #460 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Light the Candles
Reports from Baykonur indicated that the weather was perfect for the launch: clear skies, light winds, and hot July sunshine.
The post Space Roc...
Space Rocket History #459 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – I Want my Apollo/Soyuz TV
Television coverage involved meticulous planning of specific television transmissions, detailed preparation for an onboard press conference, and caref...
Space Rocket History #458 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Final Training & Tang Ceremony
Eight cosmonauts arrived in Washington, D.C. on February 7th, 1975 to start their final training session in the U.S. as the technical specialists argu...
Space Rocket History #457 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Soviet Concerns with Apollo
The origin of the Soviet’s concern, regarding the potential impact of the Apollo Command Module’s Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters on the Soyuz...
Space Rocket History #456 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Soyuz 16
Soyuz 16 served as a comprehensive rehearsal for the Soviet contribution to Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).
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Space Rocket History #455 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Spacecraft Orientation
The American astronauts acknowledged the necessity of enhancing their Russian language proficiency. They observed that their Russian counterparts, had...
Space Rocket History #454 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Astronauts & Cosmonauts
For the first time, the Soviet Union publicly announced the crew assignments for a Soyuz mission before the flight. Previously, cosmonaut identities w...
Space Rocket History #453 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Mid-term Review
According to George Low, the Soviet mission operations control room was quite large – it contained 16 two-man consoles, thus allowing them 32 flight c...
Space Rocket History #452 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Full Speed Ahead
In April of 1972, George Low returned to Washington from Moscow and briefed Henry Kissinger. He conveyed NASA’s assessment that a joint space mission...
Space Rocket History #451 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – No More Salyut?
In a re-evaluation of the proposed test mission, the Soviets concluded that utilizing the Salyut spacecraft would not be technically and economically...
Space Rocket History #450 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Round 3 with the Soviets
Finally Kraft and Gilruth told the Soviets that if they were unwilling to agree to the telephone conversations then the NASA delegation might as well...
Space Rocket History #449 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Apollo-Salyut Test Mission Planning
The spacecraft designers led by Caldwell Johnson faced a demanding task. Director Gilruth urged them to accelerate the development of the docking adap...
Space Rocket History #448 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Soyuz/Skylab & Apollo/Salyut
Two options were presented: Apollo docking with Salyut/Soyuz or Soyuz with Skylab/Apollo. Caldwell Johnson was taken aback by the Soviets’ eagerness t...
Space Rocket History #447 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Creating a Partnership
On January 20th, 1971 in private negotiation, Low and Frutkin met with Keldysh and Feoktistov to discuss rendezvous and docking. NASA proposed develop...
Space Rocket History #446 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Tell Us All Your Secrets
A critical problem emerged during the separation and ignition of the third stage approximately five minutes into the flight.
A failure in...
Space Rocket History #445 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – A Kind Invitation
A critical problem emerged during the separation and ignition of the third stage approximately five minutes into the flight.
A failure in...
Space Rocket History #444 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – Competition and Cooperation
A critical problem emerged during the separation and ignition of the third stage approximately five minutes into the flight.
A failure in...
Space Rocket History #443 – Salyut 4 – The April 5th Anomaly & Soyuz 18 with Lazarev, Makarov, Klimuk, & Sevastyanov
A critical problem emerged during the separation and ignition of the third stage approximately five minutes into the flight.
A failure in...
Space Rocket History #442 – Salyut 4 – Soyuz 17 with Gubarev & Grechko
The crew of Soyuz 17 embarked on a historic 29-day mission, surpassing the previous Soviet mission-duration record of 23 days set by the Soyuz 11 crew...
Space Rocket History #441 – Salyut 4
The Salyut 4 space station, designated DOS-4, marked the second phase of the Soviet Union’s civilian space station program. It was an improved version...
Space Rocket History #440 – Salyut 3 – Soyuz 14 & Soyuz 15 Part 2
Initially, the rendezvous with Salyut 3 proceeded smoothly. However, as the Soyuz spacecraft approached the station, a critical problem arose. The Igl...
Space Rocket History #439 – Salyut 3 – Soyuz 14 Part 1
Salyut 3 featured a “self-defense” gun purportedly designed by Alexander Nudelman for station use. Some reports suggest it was outfitted with a Nudelm...
Space Rocket History #438 – Explorer 50, Westar 1, & NOAA 4
NASA’s Explorer 50, also known as Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-8 or IMP-8, stands as a testament to humanity’s relentless pursuit of knowledge a...
Space Rocket History #437 – Mariner 10 – Venus & Mercury
Scientists had long been intrigued by Mercury, the innermost planet of our solar system. Despite its proximity to the Sun, Mercury remained largely un...
Space Rocket History #436 – Pioneer 11
Pioneer 11 detected Saturn’s bow shock on Aug. 31, 1979, about 932,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) out from the planet, thus providing the first co...
Space Rocket History #435 – Soyuz 12 & 13
This second generation of the Soyuz spacecraft, the Soyuz 7k-T was flown on Soyuz 12 through Soyuz 40 missions from 1973–1981. The new 7K-T spacecraft...
Space Rocket History #434 – Salyut 2, Mars 4, 5, 6, 7 & Tang Ceremony
At this point in 1973, the Soviets were attempting to fly 2 types of space station, the long duration orbital station scientific version called DOS. ...
Space Rocket History #433 – Skylab – Crashdown
Despite predictions, events seldom occur precisely as expected. The calculated breakup altitude of Skylab was based on its intended structural strengt...
Space Rocket History #432 – Skylab – Reboost
The official decision to proceed with the Skylab reboost mission was made on September 1st 1977, initiating a two-year preparation period for the deve...
Space Rocket History #431 – Skylab – Skylab 5 & Skylab B
Early in the planning stages of the Skylab flight, there was a desire to keep it in orbit long enough to use it as the core of a larger station.
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Space Rocket History #430 – Skylab – Skylab 4 – Leaving Skylab
Activating the station upon arrival was a challenge, but packing up to return home was also a major event that took several days. For Carr and his cre...
Space Rocket History #429 – Skylab – Skylab 4 – Solar Observations and the Last EVA
The next time an American would venture outside of a spacecraft would be on a Space Shuttle flight and that was nine years later. In less than a decad...
Space Rocket History #428 – Skylab – Skylab 4 – Kohoutek in all its Glory
This crew was the first to celebrate a new year in space 17 times as they orbited the earth and moved through the time zones.
The post Space Roc...
Space Rocket History #427 – Skylab – Skylab 4 – Christmas in Space
“We and everybody on the ground thought that it was going to be a beautiful, brilliant comet. It turned out to be beautiful all right, but it was so f...
Space Rocket History #426 – Skylab – Skylab 4 – The First EVA
“Nothing was outside, three times I went out that hatch into the ‘truly great outdoors.’ When I was out there, it was a silent world, except for the w...