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episode 97: How Apollo Explored the Moon
This is the long-awaited follow-up to the first Apollo episode, once again with W. David Woods, author of How Apollo Flew to the Moon. In this episode we cover that part that we omitted in the first episode: the time on the moon. We talk about life support, the various scientific instruments and experiments as well as the technology and use of the lunar rover (about which David is actually writing another book).
- Book: How Apollo Flew to the Moon
- Book: Lunar Rover Manual
- omega tau 83: How Apollo Flew to the Moon
- NASA Dryden
- F-16
- Supercritical Fluid
- Lunar Rover
- Sublimation
- Rebreather
- Video: Riding the Shuttle Boosters
- Potassium
- PLSS
- Oxygen Purge System (OPS)
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Pulse-width Modulation
- Brushless DC Electric Motor
- Harmonic Drive
- Ackermann Steering Geometry
- Accretion Disc
- Anorthosite
- X-Rax Spectroscopy
- Gamma Spectroscopy
- Gravimeter
- Surveyor Program
- Regolith
- Magellan (Probe)
- Cassini (Probe)