{"id":847,"date":"2023-05-14T17:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2023-05-14T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T16:23:06","slug":"skylab-50-interview-with-astronaut-jack-lousma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/14\/skylab-50-interview-with-astronaut-jack-lousma\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylab 50 &#8211; Interview with Astronaut Jack Lousma"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/><iframe style=\"display:block;\"  style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/26833071\/height\/360\/width\/\/thumbnail\/yes\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/standard\/tdest_id\/2394350\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"podcast-class\" frameborder=\"0\" placement=\"bottom\" theme=\"custom\" custom_color=\"75942D\"><\/iframe>\n<p>To celebrate the Skylab 50th anniversary here is one our favourite astronaut chats from 2012 where we caught up with Skylab 3 and STS-3 astronaut, Jack Lousma. Jack was also capcom during Apollo 13 and he tells us about taking that ominous &#8216;Houston, we&#8217;ve had a problem&#8217; call and how they solved each life-threatening issue in sequence to get the astronauts back alive. He talks about missing out on flying Apollo 20 to the moon, being a crew member on the Skylab space station and taking one of the first space shuttles out for a test drive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/awesomeastronomy\/20230515--Awesome-Astronomys-May-Episode-Part2.mp3?dest-id=2394350\">Download the episode!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the Skylab 50th anniversary here is one our favourite astronaut chats from 2012 where we caught up with Skylab 3 and STS-3 astronaut, Jack Lousma. Jack was also capcom during Apollo 13 and he tells us about taking that ominous &#8216;Houston, we&#8217;ve had a problem&#8217; call and how they solved each life-threatening issue &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/14\/skylab-50-interview-with-astronaut-jack-lousma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skylab 50 &#8211; Interview with Astronaut Jack Lousma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomeastronomy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}