Space Historian Andy Chaikin Compares NASA's Apollo 17 & Artemis I Missions

Space Historian Andy Chaikin Compares NASA's Apollo 17 & Artemis I Missions

The nearly month-long Artemis 1 mission to the Moon is slated to end on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. On that very day 50 years ago, Dec. 11, 1972, the last Apollo astronauts set foot on the moon. Space historian Andy Chaikin, author of the definitive account of the Apollo missions “A Man on the Moon,” joins Miles O'Brien to discuss the parallels.

Credit: PBS NewsHour

Duration: 7 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 9, 2022

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