Guests: John Batchelor, Rob Godwin, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Two segments featuring Apollo 16 mission, the Moon buggy, mission challenges, the end of Apollo, the public fading out and comparisons with Starship, our return to the Moon effort and more.
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John Batchelor and I welcomed back space and Apollo program historian Rob Godwin to go back in time to discuss Apollo 16. We talked about challenges, the public loss of interest in the program, we compared the Saturn V to Starship, the Moon buggy of the day to the one that is being planned for today and more. There were also crew tensions on Apollo 16 that Rob brought to our attention plus he talked extensively of how the crew knew Apollo missions were ending and what they thought about that.
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