Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon

[@MarvelousLXVII]

This interview makes me so very happy. Al Worden was a great astronaut-very articulate and interesting. He actually answered an email from me which made my year. He will be missed.

[@gold333]

Man, listening to these Apollo guys. Even at their age they are cooler, funnier and sharper than most people I know. It's no wonder they were the ones selected for this insanely dangerous work.

[@timothylocksey1826]

I agree. These guys are like treasure troves of knowledge and experience. I just found out that Glynn Lunney passed away on Friday, March 19, 2021.

[@jshepard152]

Ironically, flying to the moon turned out to be less dangerous than the flying most of these guys were doing before NASA. Look at how many astros died in plane crashes during the Apollo years: Elliott See. Charlie Bassett. Ted Freeman. CC Williams. Not to mention flight test at Edwards, which had much worse odds than flying T-38s around the country.

[@tedpeterson1156]

@@jshepard152 One of the astronauts said landing on the Moon was a “piece of cake” compared with night carrier landings.

[@brianarbenz1329]

The moon mission's Command Module pilots were a special breed. They had to be happy and fulfilled with the less glamorous role, and they all seemed to be exactly that. Their early life solitude probably did contribute to that.

[@garypugh1153]

I'm 71 and learned to fly in '75. Flying just a cessna 152 for 40 years. Took many people flying. I've always said and thought : once you take off and fly around and land by only yourself in the plane, your life is changed . 😊

[@jmjaxson]

Your absolutely correct Al. The space programs are a catalyst for curiosity, education, and advancing technologies like no other programs.

[@ssy12335]

16,000 views at this time...2/2019. How is it that there aren't more views? These men are fascinating. They are plain spoken salt of the earth types. Farm boys. Incredibly able, incredibly bright, and incredibly motivated. Easily understood, not overly complicated, grateful gentlemen. Just love these guys.

[@Realbillball]

Raise your hand if you could gladly sit down an have another four hours of this. I know I would.

[@_starter]

I, LOVE these interviews. Its like listening to; Vasco DeGama, Christopher Colombus, Lewis & Clark, David Livingstone, Henry Hudson, Hernán Cortés, Ferdinand Magellan, Amerigo Vespucci, George Jetson, Barney Rubble, AWESOME!

[@ARichardP]

He just passed away in March 2020.

[@awuma]

25:00 Excellent commentary regarding the non-existence of "zero gravity". Good to see an astronaut understanding Newto and Einstein so nicely.

[@CptMikeTango1]

You even have your own gravity

[@blueb0g]

All of them did...

[@phmwu7368]

micro-gravity ...

[@scootertooter6874]

Real cool. Lived in Jackson Hole in the early 1970's, and Al Worden's brother was the Manager of the Cowboy Bar...spent many an evening with my parents over at his house

[@mandaltby]

Really great interview, yes it is sad we canceled Constellation

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Page 211 The wand of Aesculapius with Greek inscription meaning "Life is short; art is long; the occasion is brief."

[@gold333]

The first question to ask an Apollo astronaut should be: of all the times you imagined going to the moon before you did it, what things surprised you most (that you'd not imagined) when you finally did it for real.

[@jshepard152]

29:27 The space stuff really starts around here.

[@jshepard152]

Thanks, previous self!

[@vladvostok1723]

WE TRAVELLED FROM UK TO VISIT FLORIDA & THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER ON 16/07/2019 & ON THE 20/0/2019, FOR THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE APOLLO-11 MOON LANDING (THE GREATEST TECHNICAL PROJECT IN HISTORY) CELEBRATIONS. WE MET & HAD A BEER WITH AL WORDEN & SHUTTLE ASTRONAUTS ON THE COCOA VILLAGE PUB CRAWL. VERY INTERESTING CHATTING & DRINKING WITH HIM. LET ME ON HERE IF ANY ONE ELSE WAS ON THAT FAMOUS PUB CRAWL??!!

[@marvinmartian6516]

Pakal me crazy but that’s one of the coolest landing sites I think. Crazy pyramidal mound up there not to mention the rilles. Should land at every rilled and mounded crater. So many right angles

[@tigertiger1699]

Not to muddy the waters... but this is the US that I was brought up believing in.., being responsible for others, for the guys on your team, in your community, “those guys on the lunar surface”... etc etc, how the hell did you get to a Potus internationally public celebrating the fall of someone else and taking the piss out of the guy...., how did it come from your heights to this? These men are not heroes for themselves.., who are were being, what they represented.., who they became .... that is heroic....🌹🇺🇸

[@joshuaaviles5267]

RIP Al Worden!

[@dks13827]

Very good, I like Al a lot. He has quite the resume. He was realistic and pessimistic about the poor outlook for space flight. I personally believe that it is likely that the U.S. will cease to do spaceflights. That is a sad commentary about our nation.

[@sfdko3291]

Welp, you spoke too soon lol

[@RaymondRaymond02]

❤❤❤❤

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Page 208 Pasteur, a chemist, tried to find out what causes fermentation, the process that sours milk and changes wine to vinegar.

[@joe744]

wow . i thought the missions were faked..he sounds pretty sure what he is taking about maybe they did go..

[@rdubb77]

Moon hoaxers are sad, angry, and mentally challenged people. If you brought them to the moon personally they'd still say they were drugged and mind controlled. Its rare that one can escape their level of sheer hatred for the 400,000 people that helped us get to the moon.

[@dennistedder3384]

Junior...fucking moron.

[@eventcone]

Please listen to more of the Apollo astronauts "talk". I recommend the excellent movie documentary "In the Shadow of the Moon".

[@roffpoff8221]

Why is the word "lunar geology" in existence, geo means "the earth" !

[@dennistedder3384]

Because it is.

[@1brigalow]

Please, come up with another word.

[@whistlelips]

Might be like the word "welder" which refers to a man that operates a welding machine. Most cases the welding machine is called a welder.

[@MrJm323]

....Oh, but he was just the "driver"!

[@ivandelabanque1806]

They never set foot on the moon, Imagine taking this lie to your grave..

[@KPL400]

Neils Armstrongs other famous comment was about people like you ....' his mothers one small moment with a stranger made one giant idiot for mankind' ...

[@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth]

Hi Ivan, hope that you are well. Imagine spending your time repeatedly posting inane and fatuous comments and never even attempting to produce a shred of evidence to back up your witlessness. Take care.

[@richardstoteler1951]

Not a great teller like Lovell. He's boring and arrogant

[@PaulGreenwald]

Astronots

[@albclean]

Always will be a Bachelor Paul.

[@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth]

9 years.....and still not a shred of evidence produced.

[@scottt7586]

Another money grabbed from a fake Apollo mission