A “Lunar Olympics” Almost Ended In Disaster For The Apollo 16 Astronauts

Today was the launch date in 1972 of Apollo 16, a mission that tried to pay tribute to that year's Summer Games with a "lunar Olympics"... only the astronauts almost had a disaster on their lunar-suited hands. Plus: for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's birthday, the story of why he took a role in a famous comedy movie. An Apollo astronaut explains how he nearly killed himself 'horsing around' on the moon in 1972 (Business Insider) Surely you can’t be serious: An oral history of Airplane! (AV Club) Back our show on Patreon and we’ll make podcasts that are out of this world