2023.12.20 | Apollo 8: Christmas from the Moon

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 20 December 2023:

Planet Earth — Season 4 Episode 58:

Launch of iQPS-SAR-5, otherwise known as Tsukuyomi 1, by an Electron rocket from New Zealand, with a synthetic aperture radar to collect high-resolution images of the Earth.

Skylab 4 — Part II:

Continued from last week, how the three Skylab 4 crewmen earned the one-armed paper-hanger's award, played midwife to some moths, and made observations of Comet Kohoutek and talked to Lubos Kohoutek.

Apollo 8: Christmas from the Moon:

The outbound flight, lunar orbit and Christmas Day. The significance of the mission and profile of the crew.