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Topic: Suggestions for moonwalker interview questions
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ozspace Member Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
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posted 09-04-2014 07:53 PM
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 |
moorouge Member Posts: 2454 From: U.K. Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 09-05-2014 01:54 AM
What discovery made on the Moon would it have taken to keep Apollo alive and ensured follow-up programmes? |
MarylandSpace Member Posts: 1337 From: Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 09-05-2014 01:11 PM
What was your most exciting moment on the journey? |
cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-05-2014 03:41 PM
If you could, would you go back? If so, why? |
Headshot Member Posts: 864 From: Vancouver, WA, USA Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 09-05-2014 04:08 PM
Ask, "If you could redo one of your EVAs, which one would it be and what you do differently?" |
Rick Mulheirn Member Posts: 4167 From: England Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 09-05-2014 05:51 PM
Any regrets from your time on the moon? |
ColinBurgess Member Posts: 2031 From: Sydney, Australia Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 09-05-2014 07:38 PM
If you could have flown on another of the six moon landings instead of yours, which one would you choose, and why? |
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 09-05-2014 07:43 PM
Does a day go by that you don't think about (even briefly) your very unique experience over 40 years ago? |
ozspace Member Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
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posted 09-06-2014 02:08 AM
Thanks all, keep them coming! I have about a week before the interview, still TBC. |
MCroft04 Member Posts: 1634 From: Smithfield, Me, USA Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 09-06-2014 07:04 AM
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 Member Posts: 23 From: Greenwich, NJ, US Registered: Mar 2008
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posted 09-06-2014 10:05 AM
Would you please sign this for me? |
LM-12 Member Posts: 3208 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-06-2014 11:26 AM
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 Member Posts: 1310 From: Staten Island, New York USA Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 09-06-2014 12:36 PM
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 Member Posts: 1306 From: Staten Island, NY Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 09-06-2014 12:45 PM
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 Member Posts: 1587 From: Bethpage, N.Y. Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 09-06-2014 01:45 PM
I have two: Do you approve of the adminstration's roadmap for NASA? Was anything kept from the public regarding the Apollo 1 fire? |
APG85 Member Posts: 306 From: Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 09-07-2014 12:22 PM
If you had five minutes to do anything you wanted to do on the surface, what would you do? |
ozspace Member Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
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posted 09-08-2014 08:59 AM
Thanks again everyone, I have just had my interview with Apollo 16 LMP Charlie Duke confirmed for next Monday. |
LM-12 Member Posts: 3208 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-08-2014 09:32 AM
He can talk about his OPS! |
Skythings Member Posts: 243 From: Registered: Jun 2014
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posted 09-08-2014 12:50 PM
Over the years what one question are you seldom asked about your mission that you wish folks would ask? |
Lou Chinal Member Posts: 1306 From: Staten Island, NY Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 09-08-2014 02:04 PM
After all the mission rules, when it came down to the wire, did you land with the helmet/gloves on or off? |
Aztecdoug Member Posts: 1405 From: Huntington Beach Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 09-09-2014 04:13 PM
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 Member Posts: 231 From: Cardiff, S. Wales, UK Registered: Apr 2006
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posted 09-09-2014 05:58 PM
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 Member Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
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posted 09-09-2014 07:24 PM
quote: 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. |
Dave_Johnson Member Posts: 106 From: Registered: Feb 2014
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posted 09-09-2014 07:33 PM
What did you like the most about your mission to the Moon? |
robsouth Member Posts: 769 From: West Midlands, UK Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 09-12-2014 10:14 AM
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 Member Posts: 50 From: Rochester, NY USA Registered: Jun 2010
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posted 09-12-2014 12:36 PM
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 Member Posts: 1306 From: Staten Island, NY Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 09-12-2014 04:14 PM
Rusty, I have often wondered who I would have picked? |
Rick Mulheirn Member Posts: 4167 From: England Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 09-12-2014 05:00 PM
Surely... Deke would have done the picking? |
ozspace Member Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
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posted 09-16-2014 09:16 AM
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 Member Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
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posted 10-08-2014 05:18 PM
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 Member Posts: 3120 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 10-09-2014 05:10 PM
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 Member Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
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posted 10-22-2014 07:55 AM
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 Member Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
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posted 10-30-2014 09:50 PM
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 Member Posts: 231 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2009
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posted 11-08-2014 09:17 PM
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. |
LM-12 Member Posts: 3208 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-09-2014 05:33 PM
Thank you for taking questions and making the interview available. |
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 11-19-2014 08:05 PM
Great interview... and thanks for asking my question. I'm honored! |