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ozspace
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posted 09-04-2014 07:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozspace   Click Here to Email ozspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have an opportunity to interview a moonwalker in the next few weeks, for our radio show here in Australia. I am still finalising so don't want to name him at this stage. I would like to make this unique and insightful and I have a number of things in mind.

These guys are getting on and I thought I would share this with you to see if there might be something you had always wanted to know and I could ask on your behalf.

I will consider each and if I end up using any will credit the question to you in the interview. The interview will go to air in our show The Space Show (Australia) on Southern FM and also go up as a podcast. Thanks. — Peter

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posted 09-05-2014 01:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for moorouge   Click Here to Email moorouge     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What discovery made on the Moon would it have taken to keep Apollo alive and ensured follow-up programmes?

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posted 09-05-2014 01:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MarylandSpace   Click Here to Email MarylandSpace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What was your most exciting moment on the journey?

cspg
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posted 09-05-2014 03:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If you could, would you go back? If so, why?

Headshot
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posted 09-05-2014 04:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Headshot   Click Here to Email Headshot     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ask, "If you could redo one of your EVAs, which one would it be and what you do differently?"

Rick Mulheirn
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posted 09-05-2014 05:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rick Mulheirn   Click Here to Email Rick Mulheirn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Any regrets from your time on the moon?

ColinBurgess
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posted 09-05-2014 07:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If you could have flown on another of the six moon landings instead of yours, which one would you choose, and why?

Tom
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posted 09-05-2014 07:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tom   Click Here to Email Tom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does a day go by that you don't think about (even briefly) your very unique experience over 40 years ago?

ozspace
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posted 09-06-2014 02:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozspace   Click Here to Email ozspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks all, keep them coming! I have about a week before the interview, still TBC.

MCroft04
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posted 09-06-2014 07:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MCroft04   Click Here to Email MCroft04     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Almost all of the M-G-A astronauts had very interesting jobs prior to being selected to the astronaut program (e.g. I believe Fred Haise was involved in the lifting body program). How difficult was it to walk away from those jobs? Any regrets?

NJ CO
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posted 09-06-2014 10:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for NJ CO     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Would you please sign this for me?

LM-12
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posted 09-06-2014 11:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Did you ever see the command module flying overhead during your time on the lunar surface? It would have passed over the landing site every two hours or so.

onesmallstep
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posted 09-06-2014 12:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Did the simulators you trained on prepare you adequetely for the mission, especially the landing and EVAs? And what advice, if any, from previous Moonwalkers proved particularly useful?

Lou Chinal
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posted 09-06-2014 12:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lou Chinal   Click Here to Email Lou Chinal     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Once you had pitch-over at what point did you know you had the landing made? When did you know you had the glide angle locked into your eyeball?

Fra Mauro
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posted 09-06-2014 01:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fra Mauro   Click Here to Email Fra Mauro     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have two: Do you approve of the adminstration's roadmap for NASA? Was anything kept from the public regarding the Apollo 1 fire?

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posted 09-07-2014 12:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for APG85     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If you had five minutes to do anything you wanted to do on the surface, what would you do?

ozspace
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posted 09-08-2014 08:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozspace   Click Here to Email ozspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks again everyone, I have just had my interview with Apollo 16 LMP Charlie Duke confirmed for next Monday.

LM-12
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posted 09-08-2014 09:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
He can talk about his OPS!

Skythings
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posted 09-08-2014 12:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Skythings   Click Here to Email Skythings     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Over the years what one question are you seldom asked about your mission that you wish folks would ask?

Lou Chinal
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posted 09-08-2014 02:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lou Chinal   Click Here to Email Lou Chinal     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
After all the mission rules, when it came down to the wire, did you land with the helmet/gloves on or off?

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posted 09-09-2014 04:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aztecdoug   Click Here to Email Aztecdoug     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was talking to two astronauts who had been to the Moon and back about the ISS. I asked them if they would like to go up to the ISS if they could. Hands down both of them said no way would they go. They couldn't stand the idea of just orbiting around the Earth over and over. They said if they were going into space, that they wanted to go somewhere.

Ask your moonwalker about flying to the ISS.

chappy
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posted 09-09-2014 05:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for chappy   Click Here to Email chappy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ask him to describe about John Young, his commander of Apollo 16. What its like to train and work with John Young prior to the Moon?

ozspace
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posted 09-09-2014 07:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozspace   Click Here to Email ozspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Aztecdoug:
Ask your moonwalker about flying to the ISS.
Thanks, good thought, although I do recall Pete Conrad saying that he felt SkyLab was a bigger highlight in his career than the moon mission for him. Mind you, he was the CDR of the rescue mission that saved the spacecraft, might go some way to explaining it! Also, Al Bean flew on SkyLab too.

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posted 09-09-2014 07:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dave_Johnson   Click Here to Email Dave_Johnson     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What did you like the most about your mission to the Moon?

robsouth
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posted 09-12-2014 10:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for robsouth     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I once asked Al Worden if there was any question that I could ask him that he hadn't already been asked, he replied, "Probably not", so I simply asked him for a photo.

Rusty53
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posted 09-12-2014 12:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rusty53     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ask him, if he were given the opportunity to command an Apollo landing mission, who would he choose as his CMP and LMP?

Lou Chinal
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posted 09-12-2014 04:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lou Chinal   Click Here to Email Lou Chinal     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Rusty, I have often wondered who I would have picked?

Rick Mulheirn
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posted 09-12-2014 05:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rick Mulheirn   Click Here to Email Rick Mulheirn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Surely... Deke would have done the picking?

ozspace
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posted 09-16-2014 09:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozspace   Click Here to Email ozspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks everyone, we had the interview today and it was brilliant! Charlie is superb and very accommodating.

Of course, there is never enough time, we spoke for about 40 minutes in the end, we managed a few of your questions. I will post a link here when it is due to be broadcast (we pre-recorded) and it will be available as a podcast shortly thereafter.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, this was a lot of fun and you really helped a lot, much appreciated. - Peter, The Space Show (Australia)

ozspace
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posted 10-08-2014 05:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozspace   Click Here to Email ozspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Space Association of Australia is proud to announce the broadcast of an exclusive interview with Apollo 16 moonwalker Charlie Duke.

The tenth man to walk on the Moon will be our guest on The Space Show (Australia) radio program over three weeks during October. The former astronaut gave generously of his time during a recent visit to the studios of Southern FM (in Melbourne, Australia) and record an extended interview with Andrew Rennie and Peter Aylward.

The Space Show (Australia) can be heard every Wednesday evening between 7 and 8 pm (AEDT) on Southern FM, which broadcasts on 88.3 MHz to Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs. Or you can stream live here. The interviews will also be podcast after broadcast and will be available here.

Each of our three discussions with Charlie Duke will start at about 7:15 p.m. (following the space news segment of the show) and will include illustrative audio from the Apollo 16 mission, which was launched on 1972 April 16 and returned to Earth 11 days later. Astronauts Duke and Young spent 71 hours in the Descartes region of the Moon.
  • October 15 Program 1:
    Duke discusses his formative experiences, his military aviation career, astronaut training and his role in the early Apollo missions.

  • October 22 Program 2:
    Duke describes the Apollo 16 mission to the Moon, his work on the Space Shuttle development, his decision to leave NASA and his life since then.

  • October 29 Program 3:
    Duke responds to questions submitted by listeners.
International broadcast times:
  • Melbourne (Australia - Victoria) 15 Oct. 2014 at 7:00 PM AEDT UTC+11
  • New York (U.S.A. - New York) 15 Oct. 2014 at 4:00 AM EDT UTC-4
  • Los Angeles (U.S.A. - California) 15 Oct. 2014 at 1:00 AM PDT UTC-7
  • Corresponding UTC (GMT) 15 Oct. 2014 at 08:00
Special note and thanks go to The Space Show Australia’s Producer and presenter Andrew Rennie for his work editing and adding relevant material to build out the interview. The Apollo 16 crew, particularly John Young, were not very communicative during their mission, and provided few memorable quotable comments.

On one day recently Andrew spent five hours scouring the transcript of the entire 11 day mission searching for comments other than technical readouts such as battery voltages.

Another 4 hours was spent the next day locating the relevant audio file, matching it to the transcript, and then re-recording and editing them (including removing most of the annoying squelch beeps that defined, for some people, the Apollo missions) and then deciding where to place them in Duke's narrative.

Unfortunately, the memorable quotes didn't usually match Duke's interview with us, i.e. the things that Duke spoke about usually had no available mission audio. Add to that the three or four hours taken to edit and log Duke's interview.

All in all, a very big effort and we hope you enjoy the shows!

Blackarrow
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posted 10-09-2014 05:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Blackarrow     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by robsouth:
I once asked Al Worden if there was any question that I could ask him that he hadn't already been asked, he replied, "Probably not", so I simply asked him for a photo.

I was at a dinner in 1993 when Buzz Aldrin was similarly asked if there was any question he hadn't been asked about Apollo 11. He smiled and replied: "I don't think so."

I can't help wondering if anyone has surprised him in the 21 years since then.

ozspace
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posted 10-22-2014 07:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozspace   Click Here to Email ozspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The first installment of our three part interview in which Charlie discusses his formative childhood experiences, attraction to aeroplanes, Air Force career, Graduate School at MIT, test pilot school, astronaut selection, working with Chuck Yeager, developing the lunar module and Saturn 5 propulsion systems, decision making on Apollo and Shuttle, why he left NASA, role during the early Apollo missions, role as Capcom (capsule communicator) during Apollo 10 and 11, the Apollo 11 landing, and lunar module abort limits is now on line here, enjoy!

ozspace
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posted 10-30-2014 09:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozspace   Click Here to Email ozspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The second installment of our three part interview is now on line here. Charlie discusses how he learned that he was to fly Apollo 16, the lunar roving vehicle, contingencies for walking without the rover, why the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package could have been out of reach, his role as back-up crew member for Apollo 17, working on the Space Shuttle, his decision to not fly Shuttle, and leaving NASA.

ozspace
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posted 11-08-2014 09:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ozspace   Click Here to Email ozspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The third and final installment of our exclusive interview with Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke in which he tells us what he has done in the 40 years since he left NASA, speaking to school children in Melbourne, thoughts on the current space program, why humans should return to the Moon before going on to Mars, and responses to Space Show audience questions.

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LM-12
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posted 11-09-2014 05:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you for taking questions and making the interview available.

Tom
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posted 11-19-2014 08:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tom   Click Here to Email Tom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great interview... and thanks for asking my question. I'm honored!

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