Cada misión Apolo: explico en 14 minutos

Video from the channel Tecnología buhomental about Apollo 14, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 13:43. Language: Spanish. Video type: Documentary.

A Spanish-language rundown of the Apollo program in ten short chapters, one per mission or key episode: the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967; Apollo 8's flight around the Moon in December 1968; the lunar module trials in Earth orbit and the Apollo 10 rehearsal; the first Moon landing, by Apollo 11, in July 1969; the lightning strikes that hit Apollo 12 during launch; the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion; Apollo 14; the discovery of the "Genesis Rock" on Apollo 15; Apollo 16 at Descartes; and Apollo 17, the last crewed mission to the Moon.

The Apollo 14 chapter runs just over a minute. It presents Alan Shepard as the first American in space in 1961, grounded from flights for almost a decade by an inner-ear disorder until his return in January 1971. Together with Edgar Mitchell, he landed in the Fra Mauro highlands and covered rougher terrain than previous missions, pulling a two-wheeled cart for rock samples.

The video lingers on the scene where Shepard, with an improvised golf club, hit two balls across the lunar surface, one of the program's most replayed images. Among the other chapters, notable moments include the carbon dioxide filter improvised for Apollo 13, the restart of Apollo 12's fuel cells after the lightning strikes, and the lunar rover's speed record on Apollo 16.