Apollo

So like the original Apollo program, you know, back in the Apollo program, if they needed parts and if somebody had something ordered UPS or through the mail or whatever,

the apollo programs seems so silly yeah such a such a big organization that responsible for some of the

on one of the apollo missions he was looking at the earth as they were flying away from it

I think the presentation of the first Apollo mission was clearly manicured and sanitized.

In the Apollo program.

No, no Apollo astronauts, but some people within the NASA.

In the 1960s, while the world watched Saturn V rockets rise under the banner of Apollo, the Air Force was developing the manned orbiting laboratory, a military space station designed for reconnaissance of America's enemies and other orbital operations.

And then in June of 1969, exactly one month before the Apollo mission reached the moon for the first time, the manned orbiting laboratory was canceled.

Advances in automated spy satellites made human observers redundant. Vietnam was draining resources. The Apollo program was imminent. So the classified space program was folded.

You know, when our spaceships came back from—when the Apollo spaceships came back, once they started in our atmosphere and are surrounded by plasma, we had this period where there's no communication.

the engineer also worked on aspects of the Manhattan Project and for 16 years on the Apollo program.