Season Two launches with "The Voice of Apollo," Jack King.

When born on July 20th, it's not really surprising to end up working for NASA during the Apollo Program.  Paul Haney, NASA's first news director died this week of cancer. Known for his "cool and detached voice," as Time Magazine put it, Haney served from Mercury to Apollo and was known as the "voice of Mission Control." 

Neil Armstrong Elementary in San Antonio, TX is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Apollo with a great exhibit of school built moon projects (don't you just love the Jeep rover?) including a moon walk lab, and one of only 6 moon rock displays available for public use

Pretty cool school if you ask me.

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Monday, May 18th, 7pm PT we'll be breaking down the Apollo 10 mission on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/apollotalks. This month is the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 10, the mission that served as the dress rehearsal for the lunar landing on Apollo 11.

Join James DeRuvo, Mike Smithwick, Tim Callendar and a few
surprise guests, as we break down the mission and talk about it's impact.

Listeners will be able to call in, ask questions, and join us in on he
conversation! Our last episode, the premiere episode of Deep Geek Live: Apollo 9 is available now to listen to.


Call-in Number: (347) 215-7847

From the Orlando Sentinel:

Joseph J. Mazzochi, a longtime Huntington resident and electrical engineer who worked on Grumman Corp.'s Lunar Excursion Module, which carried astronauts to the moon's surface in 1969, died Saturday at his home with his wife, Carol, at his side He was 81.

During his career at Grumman, he worked on the communication systems for the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet as well as the lunar module, known as the LEM, which carried astronauts from the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. He retired in 1989.

"He was very proud of his work with the LEM," Carol Mazzochi said, adding that he was at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston when the LEM descended to the moon's surface.

Episode 3 of THE DEEP GEEK goes live tonight at 8pm PT through BlogTalkRadio.com.  This is an experiment to see if we can take phone calls and open up the Geek to other Apollo fans.  Tonight, we'll be talking about Apollo 9 and taking calls at (347) 215-7847.

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Bear with us, this is an experiment.  But it should be fun!

See you then!

German rocket pioneer Konrad Dannenberg passed away on Monday at age 96. As one of the last surviving members of Wernher von Braun's team, Dannenberg participated in the design the Redstone, which ultimately launched the Alan Shepard and Gus Grisssom into their suborbital Mercury missionss. 

Dannenberg also served as NASA's deputy manager for the Saturn program.

We had hoped to interview Mr. Dannenberg, but sadly that opportunity has passed, but we are hopeful that his story will live on in the pantheon of Apollo lore.

R.I.P.

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