NBC New space reporter Jay Barbree is my guest. He's the only reporter to have covered every manned flight in US History. It's a goodie.

In this episode of our companion series, we interview David Woods about his book.

We're back!  This episode, we talk to Ron Creel about the development and performance of the Lunar Rover.

Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, former director of science at the Marshall Space Flight Center has died at the tender age of 94.

Dr. Stuhlinger was one of the original German rocket scientists that came to the United States with Von Braun and served as Braunie's chief scientist in developing the Saturn V.

In the 1950s, he conceived what would eventually become the Hubble Space Telescope ...

If we're building space exploration on "the shoulders of giants," Dr.Ernst Stuhlinger would be one of them.


New episode of Conversations with Apollo coming this week. Stay tuned.

How does someone with no depth perception end up developing the Apollo Lunar TV cameras?  Stan Lebar is our guest.

NASA Watch reports that lunar receiving scientist Gordon McCay has passed away.  McCay began his career as a PhD student in the Lunar Receiving Lab studying lunar samples returned to earth by Apollo.

It didn't go to the moon, but Skylab can easily be considered Apollo's victory lap.  Tom Hancock is my guest talking about Save Skylab, the lessons Apollo is teaching us about Ares, and the thirty plus year side-trip that was the Space Shuttle.

NASAWATCH reports that veteran NASA pilot Arda J. 'AJ' Roy has died.  Arda acted as capcom on the tracking ship Rose Knot and at the NASA Australia tracking station for the early test flights of the Apollo/Saturn (AS202 and 203).

We lose more every year, so if you know anyone, ANYONE who has worked on the program, put them in touch with us at Conversations with Apollo so we can get their story online.

To say "thank you" for all who have made Conversations with Apollo a success, we close out 2007 with these sage words from the crew of Apollo 8.  Happy Holidays!

(courtesy of our friends at ApolloArchive.com)

Gerry Griffin, Lead Flight Director for Apollo 12, 15 & 17 talks the Apollo 1 fire, Apollo 12, and the costly tendency towards risk aversion.