Amy Shira Teitel Instagram – PSA: don’t launch your rocket through a storm.
Why didn’t NASA scrub the launch? A couple of reasons, foremost was that President Nixon was there and there was a bit of a need to get it off the ground while he was on site. Also the rocket was supposed to be pretty damn hardy, I mean it was launching to the Moon, through some pretty big extremes, a little rain never hurt anything, right?
The mission landed at the Ocean of Storms and there were no further problem… aside from them losing the camera timer they’d snuck on board to take a truly epic selfie of both Pete and Al on the Moon. As such we never got a dual astronaut picture. Still my favourite mission! #author #history #apollo #space | Posted on 13/Apr/2024 21:43:22
