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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: Brig. Gen. Charlie Duke, USAF, Apollo 16
Description: Charlie Duke attended the U.S. Naval Academy but accepted a commission into the U.S. Air Force upon graduation. After early assignments, including service near Berlin in the tumultuous days of the early 1960's, Duke was accepted as a NASA astronaut as the United States pressed on towards President Kennedy's goal of sending a man to the moon and returning him safely to the earth before the end of the decade.In this edition of "Veterans Chronicles," Gen. Duke walks us through his early days in the space program and his critical contributions to the development of...