Comment from Liam Friel
Time December 16, 2011 at 7:50 pm

Really great episode with someone knowledgeable and passionate about his topic.

Comment from Colin Pearson
Time December 18, 2011 at 2:37 pm

Another superb podcast. Crisply clear and brim-full of technical insights. I didn’t want it to end! Thank you Markus and Nora.

Comment from Mike
Time December 18, 2011 at 5:27 pm

Great detail. Looking forward to the details of the surface activity next year.

Mike

Comment from admin
Time December 18, 2011 at 7:18 pm

thanks for saying that :-)

Markus

Comment from admin
Time December 18, 2011 at 7:18 pm

:-)

Comment from Chris
Time December 21, 2011 at 3:02 am

How fascinating and informative. Thank you Markus and David both. For years I have read many of the relevant popular books by the astronauts but they all lack the detail that particularly interests me. And here it is. I must now get a copy of David’s book. I would definitely encourage you to get David back for a further chat. He’s a great communicator too. Thanks again.

Comment from admin
Time December 21, 2011 at 9:30 am

Thanks Chris! We will set up a second one next year!

Comment from Martin
Time December 21, 2011 at 5:47 pm

Excellent – immediately ordered the book!

Comment from Marc
Time December 22, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Great podcast

Comment from David Stevenson
Time December 24, 2011 at 2:26 am

The whole series has been great, but this episode is the best yet. Awesome stuff. Have ordered David’s book (2 copies, my Dad will want one too)

Comment from iota
Time December 26, 2011 at 12:26 am

Wieder einmal ist Dir ein außergewöhnlicher Podcast gelungen! Immer und immer tiefer tauchte ich in die unglaublichen Ideen und Einfälle derjenigen Menschen ein, die das Apollo-Programm zu so einem Milestone gemacht haben, der wohl tatsächlich die Geschichte der Menschheit begleiten wird wie die Entdeckung Amerikas, der Bau der Pyramiden und so weiter.
Hier über diesen Podcast durch so einen kompetenten Gesprächspartner Hintergründe zu erfahren, die man selbst als Raumfahrt- und Astronomieinteressierter einfach noch nicht wusste – das ist die große Stärke Deiner Arbeit! Danke dafür und für den tiefen Einblick in die vielen trickreichen Details der Apollo-Missionen!

Das ist kaum noch zu übertreffen!

Muss der angekündigte zweite Beitrag wirklich so lange auf sich warten lassen?…

Comment from admin
Time December 29, 2011 at 12:03 pm

Hi Jochen, danke für Deinen Kommentar :-) Wir werden den 2. Teil irgendwann im Frühjahr machen. Wir müssen aufpassen, dass omega tau nicht zu nem kompletten Luft- und Raumfahrt-Dingens wird :-)

Markus

Comment from Todd
Time December 29, 2011 at 7:15 pm

This is IMHO the best podcast you have ever done. I was amazed! I thought I knew a fair amount about space, but the details of things that I imagined were basic turned out to be much more of an exercise in thought and possibilities. Those engineers were truly out of this world.

Comment from Jake Brownson
Time December 29, 2011 at 9:30 pm

Fantastic episode! So many great ones, but this is probably my favorite yet. I’ve always been really hungry for technical details about space travel and this is it! Didn’t hesitate to pick up a copy of the book

Comment from Roger (New Zealand)
Time December 30, 2011 at 12:49 am

Another gold-standard podcast Markus … you’ve done it again (and again!)

Comment from Jezreel Ricafort
Time December 30, 2011 at 8:39 am

It was amazing. It is the first time when the man landed to the moon. Thanks for posting and recalling the history which is part by science and technology.

Comment from Randy Post
Time December 31, 2011 at 2:50 am

I was always interested in how the first flights to the moon were accomplished. This was a great podcast.

Comment from Elena Lawrence
Time January 4, 2012 at 3:38 pm

This podcast was a fascinating perspective of the engineering aspects of the Apollo missions, rather than the more typical (and also interesting) viewpoint of the personalities involved. Great stuff. David Walker knows his material inside and out and Markus did a well-prepared, enthusiastic, excellent interview. Thanks for putting all the effort into this!

Comment from Erik Sprangers
Time January 9, 2012 at 7:08 pm

Very interesting topic, listening to it again now on the noagenda stream. Well done!

Comment from Hardeep Virdee
Time January 17, 2012 at 1:37 pm

Just brilliant! I loved David’s enthusiasm of his subject. He is fantastically knowledgeable. Many thanks Marcus for producing this episode. Please get David on again as suggested. And do not make us wait a year!

Comment from Albrecht
Time January 22, 2012 at 9:14 pm

Schade, daß David es nicht geschafft hat, ein auch nur einigermaßen zivilisiertes Englsch zu sprechen. Ich habe irgendwann entnervt abgeschaltet…

Comment from MaNo
Time January 22, 2012 at 10:46 pm

Ich finde Deinen Kommentar nicht besonders angemessen. David spricht ganz normales Schottisch.

Comment from jbburnett
Time January 23, 2012 at 5:38 am

This was a great show – 5 stars. I’ve got Week’s book but confess I didn’t get around to reading it yet, but now I will. I definitely look forward to Pt. II of the podcast: On the Moon. Why wait a whole year? Strike while the iron is hot! From Hawaii, aloha.

Comment from MaNo
Time January 23, 2012 at 8:35 am

Hi – I will meet David personally at the Code Generation 2012 conference at the end of March. We’ll record the conversation live and in color there. So it will likely be published in April.

Greeting to Hawaii :-)

Comment from chris
Time February 2, 2012 at 10:17 pm

Sehr interessant, aber das Gespräch war wegen des sprechrhytmus nur sehr schwer zu verstehen.
Ich habs bestimmt 3mal gehört bis ich völlig folgen konnte.
Inhaltlich wie (fast) immer top

Comment from Renium
Time February 16, 2012 at 11:48 pm

Muss Albrecht beipflichten.
Topic top, der englische Akzent
war suuper- extremst nervig.
M.E. hat sich David
sogar bemüht, Englisch und kein
Schottisch zu sprechen. Letzteres
sprechen die Snooker Spieler wie
Higgins, Maguire, Dott etc. oft, und
da versteht man fast nur noch Bahnhof.

Ich habe nach 30 Minuten abgeschaltet
und mir das Buch bestellt.
Sorry!

Comment from MaNo
Time February 17, 2012 at 9:11 am

Was mich an Albrecht’s Kommentar gestört hat war weniger die Inhaltliche Aussage, sondern seine extrem unangemessene Formulierung!

Markus

Comment from Gurbir
Time April 9, 2012 at 2:47 pm

Fabulous podcast. ausgezeichnet Danke.

Anyone interested seeing David in person – he will be speaking at the British Interplanetary Society Northern Meeting in York (northern England) – May 19th. More here

http://astrotalkuk.org/2012/02/18/bis-northern-meeting-york-19th-may-2012/

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Comment from MaNo
Time April 9, 2012 at 4:04 pm

Thanks Gurbir :-)

Comment from Martin
Time June 8, 2012 at 10:30 pm

Wonderful episode. I’m old and got to watch the Apollo missions as a kid. I can’t believe it’s taken over 40 years to learn some of this fantastically interesting stuff. Thanks!

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Comment from Galileo
Time August 1, 2012 at 11:28 am

Absolutely great episode, that’s what podcasts are for!

The scottish accent wasn’t really a problem, it was a pleasure to listen to David, and I don’t speak or listen to english much, only at the movies.

The only thing that annoyed me was the difference in the volume of David an Markus, I twiddled with the car stereo quite often :))

Comment from MaNo
Time August 1, 2012 at 8:01 pm

Sorry for the audio issues. I listened to it myself and didn’t notice it. But I’ll try to be more careful in the future.

Markus

Comment from Christoph
Time January 10, 2013 at 9:48 am

Great episode! I also liked Dave’s epilogue. He seems as passionate about everything as the engineers who worked on this in the 1960s. Wonderful, thanks.