Charlie Duke

Anyway, I think that's where we're planning on landing and eventually I think it's a good idea to build a moon base up there and start seeing how we can use some of the resources that are on the moon that are readily available.

I agree.

A moon base, for me, is the final objective to have a permanent station on the moon.

We did it in South America, the Arctic, Antarctic, and it's worked down there in that hostile environment, and we could do the same thing up on the moon eventually.

and with vehicles that we can bring up there through the lunar rovers and experiments packages that we could emplace.

We find, I think, a tremendous opportunity as a science station on the lunar surface.

Well, uh, both, uh, they and us, uh, and Apollo, we had a, uh,

automatic abort system, that big, uh, rocket, uh, up on the top of the, uh, spacecraft was your escape.

Uh, and if, uh, the, uh, automatic system since, uh, an explosion, it was going to fire that rocket and lift the spacecraft off, uh, to a safe, safe area.

And, uh, that was automatic up through a minute or so, if I remember.

And then after that you went manual.

Uh, so that, uh, the, the commander could command it if you wanted to, and eventually you jettisoned it because you didn't need it.

But, uh, and, uh, anyway, uh, everything went well and, uh, uh, they have, it was a design very similar to Apollo and, uh, state systems and stuff like that.

So, uh, I felt very confident.

The only thing, uh, of course they have solar panels and, uh, we had, uh, fuel cells.

And solar panels are more reliable, and I think, and so they've gone into that, whereas, you know, in Apollo 13, we had an oxygen tank explode, and we lost all the fuel cells.

So we had a crippled spacecraft, and fortunately, with the lunar module, we could get them back on the lunar module, but that was a major work of mission control who saved the day.

headed for five days just going to the moon well uh we orbited for uh one and a half revolutions and over australia we accelerated to escape velocity and we were on our way uh then we had to retrieve the lunar module uh after we got out of orbit and uh on our way and uh

it was, uh, you know, 72 hour trip, uh, was the way it was designed to, uh, so that we had arrived at the moon at the proper velocity and still have enough fuels to get into orbit and then get out of orbit.

So that's the way it was designed as a 72 hour trip.