Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
at the age of 87)."As Charlie described, when people came out of the pitchover and actually surveyed the places that the computer would have landed, they weren't suitable. On every flight, the commander had to take over the LM [lunar module] and move it to some degree to find a place that was satisfactory."
Not that Young and Duke were complaining. Mission Control might have waved off the landing completely. Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charlie Duke reunites with public affairs officer Doug Ward , backup commander Fred Haise, flight controller Jerry Bostick and EVA capcom Tony England for a panel discussion celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 16, April 2, 2022 in Houston.
"We started describing the rocks and it was totally different from what he had been briefed, and I kind of got the impression that we wasted six years on these guys and they did not know what they were seeing," said Duke."But as Tony said, then they got really excited about the descriptions of the rocks that we were collecting."
The rock in question was on the slope of the crater, leaning in. Duke tried to reach down and pick it up from the upside, but couldn't. For his moon-bound mixtape, Duke chose country music and turned to a friend who was a disc jockey to put it together.
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