Click above to listen to part 2 of Nailing the Moon Landing, featuring Charles Fishman, author of “One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon,” Geoff Nunn, adjunct curator for Space History at the Museum of Flight, and James Joki, EMU Flight Controller for Apollo Mission Control in Houston, all explaining how NASA had to invent new technology to get humans to the moon.
When a circuit breaker was damaged while reboarding the lunar module after the first moon walk, Buzz Aldrin used the pen above to activate the circuit that made it possible for the astronauts to leave the moon.
Nailing the Moon Landing:
Part 1: Cosmic Conveyance
Part 2: Inventing Technology
Part 3: The Apollo 1 Tragedy
Part 4: Soviet Failure
Part 5: Planting the Flag
Part 6: Nurse to the Astronauts
Part 7: Space Pilots
Part 8: The Reek of Regolith
