Today True Weird Stuff - The Rightest Stuff



Astronaut Gordon Cooper had to manually control his spacecraft after a series of equipment failures. Edgar Mitchell avoided disaster by deactivating spaceship abort commands caused by a faulty switch. Becoming an astronaut has been the dream of generations of children, but it's more than exploring strange new worlds. The job of an astronaut is stressful, demanding and requires quick life-or-death decision making. This episode looks at a few tales in space where astronauts rose to the occasion to avoid catastrophe.

Today True Weird Stuff - The Rightest Stuff
 
Astronaut Gordon Cooper had to manually control his spacecraft after a series of equipment failures. Edgar Mitchell avoided disaster by deactivating spaceship abort commands caused by a faulty switch. Becoming an astronaut has been the dream of generations of children, but it's more than exploring strange new worlds. The job of an astronaut is stressful, demanding and requires quick life-or-death decision making. This episode looks at a few tales in space where astronauts rose to the occasion to avoid catastrophe.

True Weird Stuff is a podcast hosted by Sheri Lynch about... well... True Weird Stuff. We cover just about anything from Bigfoot to the things that go bump in the night. 

True Weird Stuff is a podcast hosted by Sheri Lynch about... well... True Weird Stuff. We cover just about anything from Bigfoot to the things that go bump in the night.

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