The Greatest Leap, part 6: After Apollo, NASA still searching for an encore
Ars Technica » Scientific Method 2018-02-13
Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. (video link)
Apollo: The Greatest Leap
- The Greatest Leap, part 5: Saving the crew of Apollo 13
- The Greatest Leap, part 4: Catching Apollo fever as a new NASA employee
- Video: See our full interview with Orion Program Manager Mark Kirasich
- Video: See our full interview with Apollo EECOM controller Rod Loe
- The Greatest Leap, part 3: The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing
And then it was all over.
After the drama of Apollo 13, the final four human missions to the Moon in 1971 and 1972 flew smoothly. With each successive, increasingly routine landing, astronauts made longer forays out onto the dusty lunar terrain and delved deeper into the scientific secrets hidden there.